Ruth’s top tips for September: Fruition

1. Harvest spuds, fruit, vegetables

2. Plant onions, garlic, spring cabbages, bulbs for spring flowers, strawberries

3. Sow winter salads, fast growing green manures on cleared beds (mustard, phacelia), hardy annuals (calendula, nigella)

4. Keep composting & weeding

5. Tidy everything up while the weather is still pleasant.