Harvest pears, apples, grapes, and ever-bearing strawberries and raspberries.- Remove raspberry canes after they bear fruit.
- Clean up fallen fruits, twigs, and leaves around apple and other fruit trees to reduce disease and insect carryover.
- Plant radishes, green onion sets, lettuce and spinach for fall harvest.
- Plant spring flowering bulbs, tulips, daffodils, and others.
- Clean up garden areas to reduce insects and disease as plants die back for winter.
- Plant trees and shrubs.
- Rake up fallen leaves and compost.
- Bring houseplants in before temperatures drop into the fifties. Clean and wash before moving them indoors.
- Plant garlic toward the end of the month for harvest next July.
- September is a good time to begin a compost heap.
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