September

Veges

1) Plant cabbage, cauli, broccoli, spinach, onion, leek, pak choi, celery & silverbeet and lettuce seedlings (protect lettuces from frost).

2) Plant early to main crop potatoes.

3) Plant strawberries and herbs such as coriander and tarragon.

4) Lay Quash or Blitzem when planting young seedlings to control slugs and snails.

5) Sow peas.

6) Start seeds of basil, tomato, capsicum, chilli, zuchini, melon and eggplant indoors.

7) New seasons tomato seedlings now in (for indoors or glasshouses only).

Flowers

1) Plant pansies, violas, primula, polyanthus, cineraria, poppies, lobelia, cyclamen, kale, gazania, alyssum, sweet william, ranunculus, nemesia, livingstone daisies, statice, sweet peas, geraniums, delphiniums, carnations, aquilegia.

2) Feed spring flowering annuals with 'Flower Power' or dried blood.

3) Plant paeonies, gladioli, begonias and dahlias.

Indoor

1) Feed houseplants - they require more food in warm weather.

2) Start to increase watering as the weather warms up.

3) Repot plants that have outgrown their containers.

General

1) Plant roses, general shrubs, deciduous trees, rhododendrons, camellias,fruit trees, daphne and boronia.

2) Spray peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and cherries with Champ DP for leaf curl.

3) New seasons waterlilies due.

4) Sow new lawn and patch sow established lawn where required. 

5) Feed established lawns with a high nitrogen food and aerate if compacted.

6) Feed summer flowering shrubs and established roses and fruit trees.

7) Prune tips of fuchsias and pelargoniums to encourage bushiness.

8) Prune hibiscus.

9) Prune magnolias after flowering.

10) Feed camellias, azaleas and rhododendrons after flowering with a fertiliser for acid-loving plants.

11) Spray roses with Shield or Super Shield and give a dressing of rose fertiliser.

12) Cover tender plants with frost cloth as necessary.