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10 Late Summer Garden Tips & Projects | September: P. Allen Smith



September is upon us! Here are 10 late summer gardening tips and projects to reap what you’ve sewn and prepare you for the fall.

TOPICS INCLUDE:
5 Late Blooming Perennials
Growing ZInnias
DIY Floral Chandelier
Color in the Garden
Planting a 3 Tier Planter
Maintaining Fruit Trees
Growing Gourds
How to Ripen Tomatoes
Garden Bruschetta Recipe
Preserving (Freezing) Herbs

“In my mid-South garden fall is a slow transformation into winter. The heat may not break until late September with the first frost occurring at the end of November. I no longer think of fall as a time to put the garden away, but rather the season for reaping all that I’ve sown during spring and summer. ” ~ P. Allen Smith

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32 Comments

  2. Lori Regina

    Well I made it to my farm here in MO from Alaska. I have discovered I am having a dickens of a time with chiggers!
    So here is a question. If I disrupt the weed life over the dormant season will they come back in the same place next spring?
    THANKS

  3. Southern Entertaining

    I love these tips. I love my zinnias they are my garden workhorse and they bring so many beautiful butterflies. Would love to try the flower chandelier😊 Thanks for sharing

  7. Wanda Shaw

    Wonderful tips and beautifully presented. Thanks again for sharing your talent and gifts with us. 😍

  9. John Pringle

    Love all these tips. More planning for next season! I am in zone 6a southern Ontario, can I still prune back my Russian sage now or is it too late? The bees and butterflies are all over it right now. Would be a shame for the pollinators to lose this food source.

  10. Annie Rampersad

    Thanks for sharing.I just bought some hyssop,velvet queen sunflower and foxglove seeds.I would love for you to do a video on foxglove plants.👍

  12. warp9p65

    Took me a long time to find Autumn Minaret daylilly. Finally found one from a grower in Vermont, but quite expensive.

  13. Cheryl Anderson

    What a lovely grouping of ideas! The blended zinnias is the way to go! Maybe a few Cosmos, Black Eyed Susans, & other late bloomers could be blended in too!

    Or, just as you have done…all Zinnias. They do look so lovely growing close together like that, which may be easier to do in a dry climate. Here in Mass, we get lots of rain, & they can mildew, if densely planted & the leaves stay wet after sunset.

    I've read that a whole, organic milk, diluted with water, blended & sprayed on foliage, including lowest leaves & their undersides, of plants which are vulnerable to mildew, following a cool, rainy spell,as a mold & mildew preventative. Remove a few lraves to promote air flow too, or leaves touching the ground.

    When threat of more rain has passed, in early morning, you can spray the tops of leaves with clean water if they need it to remove any visable milk.

    The floral chandelier is so lovely! Could weave in fairy lights, or hot glue 3 or 4 squat lightweight, LED battery powered votive candle holders & fill with the fake candles with flickering bulbs, that look like real candles.

    It could be hanging or placed on a pretty platter, set onto the table, used as a center piece. Maybe a cake stand in the center could display a lovely frosted cake, adorned with some frosting flowers to tie in colors of the floral wreath.

    It could aldo be made on a hand made grapevine wreath, with bunches of herbs, including Bay leaves, Rosemary, Sage,etc, & flowers which dry in place.

    The herbs can be used when cooking, & replaced as needed.
    Once dried,an herbal wreath would smell & look lovely, hung on a hook – maybe in my window over the kitchen sink!

    Thanks for the reminder that while summer imay be drawing to a close, there are flowers which still bloom this late,& enjoyable things we garden lovers can do this time of year!

  16. Camilla *

    I’m so impressed already, with the new flush of buds coming on the Russian sage I cut back a couple weeks ago. It looks so Provençal, here in Missouri, with the Russian sage and lavender against a backdrop of sunflowers! Thanks for more great tips and the lovely flower scapes! ☺️🌻

  22. Vivienne Holmes

    Enjoy all your videos, learn a lot. Don’t like the background music. On most of your videos, you may hear birds chirping and other sounds of nature. Background music drowns out most everything else. Thank you for all your wonderful information.

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