JOBS TO DO THIS WEEK
Late summer can be a good time to pick up bargains at your local garden centre. Perennials that have finished flowering are often at reduced rates – and at this time of year, they can be divided into a couple of smaller plants, giving you even better value. Look for late-summer flowering perennials like rudbeckias, asters and chrysanthemums which could give you lots of colour through to November.
You can still sow crops for late autumn harvest such as lettuce, spring onion, radish, rocket and lamb’s lettuce.
Get your biennials – wallflowers, sweet Williams, honesty, foxgloves and forgetme-nots into their final flowering position. Either you will have sown their seeds earlier this summer or, if not, you can buy stock from your local nursery.
Sweet pea lovers – it’s time to choose varieties for next year. They’re best sown from late September through early October to get a head start for next spring.