The Gardener's Almanac

Overview ;

Continue collecting seed,sowing perennial and taking cuttings.

 

Week No. 40 - 30th Sept to 5th Oct

 

• Sow Actinidia, Eleagnes, Pacific Coast Iris, Juniper, Laburnum, and Parthenocissus, seeds.

 

• Collect Skimmia berries, extract the seed and sow in pots/trays of seed compost.

 

• Collect Gunnera, and Juniper, seeds.

 

• Divide Aconitum, Alchemilla mollis, Alliums, Aqilegia, Blueberry, Billberry, Campanula, Convallaria, Cranberry, Dicentra, Echinops, Hypericum, Lilies, Polygonatum, and Sedum.

 

• Take Celastrus, Clerodendrum, Hedera, and Laburnum cuttings.

 

• Thin out Lettuce seedlings.

 

• Transplant Pieris cuttings into a nursery bed.

 

• Plant out Eucomis bulbils.

 

Week No. 41 - 6th to 12th

 

• Complete any tasks not completed last week.

 

Week No. 42 - 13th to 19th

 

• Collect Celastrus seeds.

 

• Sow Berberis, Celastrus, and Magnolia, seeds.

 

• Prick out Lily bulbils.

 

• Layer Cotoneaster, and Parthenocissus.

 

• Take Black / Red & White currant, Globe Artichoke, and Philadelphus cuttings.

 

• Divide Echinacea, Hemerocallis, and Loosestrife if required.

 

Week No. 43 - 20th to 26th

 

• Prick out Cyclamen seedlings.

 

• Dress / clean Gladioli corms and place in store.

 

Week No. 44 - 27th to 2nd Nov

 

• Prick out Aethiopica seedlings if large enough to handle.

 

• Take Echinop, and Parthenocissus, cuttings.

 

• Divide Rudbeckia, if required, or wait till new growth emerges in spring.