September Gardening To-Do List

I started this article on Labor Day, September 2. From this time, we in Northwest Reno (Somersett to be exact) have eight to ten weeks to go before we are likely to get our first good frost. In the past we have experienced November snow but that is unusual. But it does mean that we should start paying attention activities around the yard.

Originally, I was going to develop a fairly complete article on things that should be done in the garden and around the house but then I came across an article by HGTV which covered nearly all of the material I was going to include. So I decided to use the professional information and put this article in the article section.

The vegetables that you have in place should continue to produce for many weeks. Keep note of when they start to give up for the year and then remove them. Note there is still time to plant some cool weather vegetable and Fall annuals. These should last until early November or so. A task I am not looking forward to is dividing perennials such as iris, peonies and others. The other main undertakings are cleanup and mulching.

I still have some stuff I want to discuss about pruning since my gardener and I have been disagreeing on when to prune my fruit trees, roses and other shrubs. This is not included in material from HGTV so look for it soon.

In the meantime, get started on that September Gardening To-Do List