I love early September because the garden looks great but it’s sort of in a stasis—weeds are slow, you can prune things and they stay in place. So the garden checklist is wonderfully light.

This is the time to coast and enjoy, which is great if your garden looks great. The gardens I work do look great but at home, the back door is blocked by palm fronds and the walkway by arundo that was soo cute with Springs blue salvia.

There is plenty of work and fun work to do.

Garden Checklist

Weed. Of course.

Sow veggie seeds. Then, wow in your veggie garden and your flower garden. My Momma, who is a fantastic gardener, cleaned out an old wagon that she uses as a mobile flowerbed and sowed spinach seeds this weekend.

Divide. All those things that you love, that have thrived this summer. Ive divided and stuck little bits of Zephyranthes Pink Panther as well as Sagiteria, Eryngium aquaticum and then Colocasia jengii into a water feature garden.

Take Cuttings. Today, Ethan and I will walk with Madison Turnblad (Moore Farms Production Manager) the entire garden to take cuttings of all the tropicals worth saving. Honestly, at home, I dont do this too much work except for a very few special things that I root so as not to loose. Like Plectranthus Purple Martin.

Get Out. We’re planning a staff trip to Charleston for everyone, not just the gardeners. Well see private gardens and then do a tour of the old jail and the American School of Building Arts which was just featured in Preservation Magazine. It all ties to a lecture I’m planning for Clemson University. It’s going to be entitled The Eroticism of Competence. It’s meant discuss how important it is that students learn to identify and recognize excellence in the people who they contract with. I believe it’s important when they make their own garden walls, fountains, terraces, benches

Soak New Plants. Do a drench of low nitrogen fish fertilizer on plants that recently went into the ground. We drenched today. There are lots of small plants to help get them over current drought stress and strong for winter.