As the garden reveals its last fruits and flowers, one can feel the turn towards the Fall. Morning air has some bite. Leaves are browning. Seed pods drying. The last push of the garden to emit its final offering.

Amongst this descent, there are still a few things to harvest, do, and even plant!

Here are some tasks for September:

To Sow:

There are still a few things you can sow in this next week. After that, it might be a bit late. These include hardy winter greens such as:

Lettuce
Spinach
Corn Salad
Mustard greens (Mizuna)

Baby lettuce seedlings sown a couple weeks ago.

Other Tasks:

Prune back dead leaves or new shoots on tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, or anything that has died back. This helps the plant focus its energy to the last final fruits, as well as decreases pests and diseases.
Harvest! Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peppers, apples, pears, etc. Enjoy the last bounty of the year and process, whether that be canning, freezing, drying, or eating fresh!
Curing any remaining onions this week! If you still have some onions in the garden, it’s time to take ‘em out and cure them in the shade. Thankfully it is remaining dry and warm.
Harvesting seed pods or dried beans before the rains come.
Mulching with straw or compost around overwintering veggies, ensuring to avoid rotting the stem base.
Last chance to fertilize overwintering veggies to give them a final growth spurt before the dwindling heat and sun will slow their growth.
Look out for any pests, usually cabbageworms this time of year, on your overwintering brassicas. I had mine covered, and still had some.