September monthly gardening activities

Explore our monthly activities to do in the garden with your children and young people in September.

Start buying and planting any flowering bulbs you want to feature in your outdoor space next spring: snowdrops, daffodils, crocus and iris.
Start sowing overwintering vegetables that will be ready to harvest in late winter, next spring and summer - have a go at onion, spinach and Chinese cabbage.
Harvest vegetables such as; tomatoes, salad leaves, French beans, runner beans, courgettes, cucumbers, pepper, chillies, onions, spring onions, globe artichokes and any other vegetables you are growing when they are ready.
By now most of your apples, pears, plums, quince and damsons should be ripe and ready to harvest.
If you have a classroom or home packed with houseplants, start reducing the amount of water you’re giving them as temperatures cool down.
Cover any leafy crops you have growing in your garden with netting to prevent them being eaten by birds. To make sure birds in your garden have enough food, you can leave flowers to go to seed or place bird feeders around the space.
Once they have finished flowering, you can divide your herbaceous perennial plants. This is a great way to get more plants for your green space or to share with others.
Start ordering new fruit trees, fruit canes and bushes ready for planting in the late autumn or winter. You can find plants at local tree nurseries, garden centres or online.
Clean out any greenhouses, polytunnels and storage spaces ready for a new school year of growing. Make sure to demonstrate tool safety to any new pupils or group members.
Pick autumn raspberries regularly, to get fruits at the peak of ripeness, when richly coloured, plump and easy to pull off. Pick on a dry day, so the berries aren’t wet.

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More ways to explore the outdoors

Use our fun craft and wildlife activities to learn more about the outdoors, growing and nature.

For any flowers in your space that are starting to die back, collect their seeds to sow and grow next year. This is perfect to create plants for free from any annuals, herbaceous perennials and wildflowers you have. Why not make a wildflower piñata as a fun way to spread your wildflowers? You could make an origami seed packet to store your collected seeds.
Design a poster to celebrate what has been grown in the garden. The poster can be used to advertise a harvest feast, a vegetable show, a plant sale or show the rest of the school what has been grown.
Learn how to upcycle everyday objects like fruit juice cartons for growing plants.

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