September feelings Sweden

Dew in the morning, over the land and the lake, delivering beautiful atmosphere. Mostly the sun can come through and it will be a beautiful day like in summer, some times not and it will stay foggy. Late flowers, all sorts of red berries, orange cantharel -if your are lucky- and leafs starting to color).  Typical moods of september in Småland Sweden. Last weeks we had beautiful sunny summer days.  When I can trust the forecast (not sure about it) it will be more like that next weeks, but no Indian Summer (Brittsommar) like we had once. 

It's very nice weather now to be outside. To work, to paint, work in the garden and have coffee sometimes. Only in the early morning and late afternoon it will be more cold soon. But it will take another six weeks before frost, at least. But you never know, so lets hope so. I need some jobs to be done before. I'm already busy with some of the september garden jobs this year: 

• This is the perfect time to devide plants. It very humid in the air and it's easy to increase your number of plants, some also need a change of place. Most easy is to take them out and split them.
• I've been pruning the black current plants . Taking out the old branches so there's air and space for new ones to grow now. On time to make a lot of new flowers and berries in spring. 
• I got some sawing advice, some plant sorts you can already saw in autumn. They can manage the winter they said. They need even the winter cold to germinate and will be more early next year. I bought some special sorts, like dark foxglove and pimpernel perennials. It need to be done this week. 
• End of September I'm expecting some new bulbs for spring, ordered with Goteborg Botaniska. 
• Make some new autumn decorations around the house, to have a nice look again. 

• Prepare "växtloppis" plants (plants to sell) for winter. Give dem extra space to grow in containers. Make some new cutting of Sedum for next year. 
• Fatten, cover or prune other plants. Take away the annuals. 
• Make changes in the robot lines if needed (I have extended the robot mowing surface, so less cutting for me) and repair some defects. 

• Last weeding all around the garden (quit a lot high weeds I can tell you 🙈)
• Hopefully I can fix the gravel path too before my hands are getting to could. We had more rain then last years, so the weeds have been growing faster as I could keep away the weeds. I'm very sad it's getting more and more green. 
• One of the last gras cuttings. Maybe one or two more times. As long as temperatures are above 7 degrees it will keep growing. Keep in mind that the last cuttings must not too short to give the gras strength and cover for the winter. 

Both last three ones keep me busy at least 3 days a week. So I decided the garden is big enough now. We have been cultivating wild parts in the back extra (within the 2500 square meters) this year because we had more sun, plans and plants. Of course it takes more time to maintain, but now it is enough to manage, so I need to make it more smart and easy now.