Posted: 11 September 2024
Author: Smith's Garden Centre
You can begin to scarify your lawn now, using a lawn rake to remove any dead grass and debris, so that you’re left with mostly healthy grass.
Afterwards, you can aerate your lawn using a garden fork to poke holes into the lawn surface, this will help with water and air movement throughout winter.
Once the lawn has been aerated it’s best to top dress your lawn with a specific lawn dressing. Finally, you can feed your lawn with an Autumn specific lawn food for best results.
Autumn is a great time to replenish nutrients into your soil.
Try adding farmyard manure to your borders, or a suitable slow release feed such as Vitax Q4 Pellets.
With the exception of some late flowering varieties, most summer flowering perennials will now have finishing flowering. It’s time to deadhead any flowering perennials and cut them back ready for winter.
Once the foliage on your potato plants has died back to the ground, it’s time to harvest. If your potatoes are pot grown then you can empty the pot onto the ground and sift through the soil to find your potatoes. If your potatoes are grown in the ground, simply use a digging fork to lift and turn the soil. This should bring your potatoes to the surface, and you can then begin to sift through the soil to retrieve your potatoes.
Now is a good time to trim any shrubs and hedging that you may have to the desired height and shape.
Now the weather is beginning to cool, it’s best to do any last minute houseplant repotting before winter. Repotting house plants during their dormant period can make rooting into new pots much slower, and it is easy to overwater house plants that haven’t had time to establish roots in their bigger pots before winter.