• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Finke Gardens & NurseryFinke Gardens & Nursery

Finke Gardens & Nursery

bringing life to your home

September Checklist

In: This Month in the Garden

September
9

With the heat of summer behind us, now is the perfect time to get caught up on all those lawn and garden projects you’ve been avoiding. Here are a few things to consider as you are out enjoying your yard.

September Checklist

  • Plant trees, shrubs, and perennials. Plant ornamental grasses before mid-September.
  • Irrigate the lawn and landscape as needed. One inch per week is sufficient.
  • Continue harvesting vegetables as they ripen.
  • Cut back and destroy peony foliage.
  • Bring in houseplants as night time temperatures near 50 degrees. Treat with systemic insecticide.
  • Prevent insects and rodents from entering the house for winter.
  • Aerate the lawn; over seed if necessary.
  • Be sure to stay ahead of weeds as they are setting seed now that can create greater problems for years to come.
  • Get new beds ready for next season’s planting by controlling weeds, incorporating organic matter now so the hard work is done and you’ll enjoy the spring planting.
  • Hold off on planting spring flowering bulbs like daffodils and tulips until soil temperatures cool. Early October is the ideal time to plant.

Category This Month in the Garden

Previous
August Checklist
Next
October Checklist

Primary Sidebar

Search

Browse articles by category

  • Landscape Care (18)
  • Landscape Design (11)
  • Landscape Plants (31)
  • News & Events (6)
  • Sunken Gardens (13)
  • This Month in the Garden (12)

Footer

Services

  • About Finke Gardens
  • Ask Rich
  • Consultations
  • Contact Us
  • Landscape Design
  • Landscape Management

Landscape Design

  • Better Together
  • Landscaping For Wildlife
  • Designing a Rain Garden

Landscape Care

  • Preparing your landscape for spring
  • Spring Garden Clean Up
  • Pruning Roses
  • Cutting back ornamental grasses

Landscape Plants

  • Sunken Gardens – Beginnings
  • Early Bloomers
  • Nebraska Natives and Their Cultivars
  • Native Grasses
  • Native Wildflowers
  • Ash Alternatives

Office Hours

  • Monday - Friday
  • 9am - 3pm

Finke Gardens & Nursery

500 N. 66th Street

Lincoln, NE 68505-2406

(402) 466-1995