September Garden Chores

In this article, we will talk about September garden chores, mostly in the warmer areas. If you have planted a fall garden, there are plenty of chores to do. If not, there are still things you can do to prepare your garden beds for next spring.

If you are back East, you are probably harvesting and getting ready to kiss your garden area goodbye and wish it a happy winter. Not in Texas!

Honestly, you should be planting and watering now for the fall garden. Hopefully, you have already planted but if you have not planted your fall garden yet, now is the time. So your first September garden chores are to plant your fall crops and water them accordingly.

Second, prepare a place for your garlic bulbs and as soon as your favorite garden place has them, plant your garlic bulbs. Then mulch them.

Concentrate on dead heading all of the dead blooms off of flower bushes, like rosebushes, hibiscus, and so many more plants for your September garden chores.This will promote good spring blooms.

Let zinnias and other annuals drop their seeds so they re-seed for spring. Do not dead head these flowers and they will come back in the spring. 

September garden chores include planting cover crops so you can add nutrients to the soil. 

They will include putting down a fresh layer of mulch over the beds you are not using this fall so they are ready for spring. Mulch the beds where you have planted fall garden seeds as well to keep moisture in.

Make sure that you have picked everything from summer and that you pull up the old plants. Cook up any produce and save some for later by storing, freezing, drying, canning, or pickling if you can. These should be the end of the September garden chores from summer.

Now, continue to weed and water as I mentioned above. Pay attention to the new plants and look for caterpillars and bugs. You will want to kill them and spray your plants with Safer Soap, an organic spray that bugs hate.