Taking cuttings from established plants and selecting bulbs for next years display in the garden

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My tomatoes have been cropping particularly well of late so I have been busy in the kitchen making BBQ sauce and Tomato Ketchup; the 'Super Sauce' variety supplying fruit of 1½lb each regularly. I am no Jamie Oliver but I haven’t given anyone food poisoning yet. I am not the tidiest of chefs and chopping up 7½lb or so of ‘Bloody Butcher’ tomatoes, my kitchen resembled a crime scene at one point but I now have several bottles of both sauces tucked away in the cupboard waiting to be used over the coming months. More will be made before summer ends. 
September can bring some warm sunny days and there is plenty to be getting on with in the garden in the late summer sun. As well as continuing to harvest various vegetables and deadhead plants such as my Agapanthus I am starting to think about next spring and what bulbs I want to plant. Over the coming weeks it is the ideal time to be planting spring bulbs such as Crocus, Daffodils, Hyacinths, Bluebells and Tulips in pots and borders. It is also a great time to take cuttings and I have been busy taking cuttings from established plants I hope to create more of. Recently I took several cuttings from my rather tired Rosemary bush which will hopefully supply me with some nice new plants for next year and beyond. I have also taken cuttings from my Viburnum Tinus; I particularly want to create a couple extra of this plant as it is such a great evergreen shrub. It flowers with clusters of small, creamy-white blooms in late winter and early spring offering much needed sustenance to any early pollinators as well as a little splash of colour in the flower border when so much else is dormant. If you don’t already grow it I would recommend you plant at least one bush on your plot. The Rosemary cuttings are in the log store at the end of the garden, sheltered but open to the elements somewhat. The Viburnum cuttings I have in the conservatory where they will over winter to offer protection from frost and cold temperatures until they are better established. I will also be taking cutting from my Zonal Geranium plants in the coming days. They can be overwintered in a greenhouse if you have them in pots but most of mine are in the flower beds and the first frosts will damage them almost certainly and they will only survive the mildest of winters outdoors here in the UK. I place the cuttings into pots in a compost and perlite quite free draining mix. They won't require much watering over winter, just keep the pots relatively damp, and they will sit happily in the conservatory until spring next year when they can be planted out and supply months of colour in 2026. 
I found a mystery sapling in my vegetable patch back in September, popping up between the Eskimo carrots. From closer observation of the leaves I believe it may be a Field Maple; I gently dug up the sapling and have placed in a pot in the hope I can grow it on and at some point in the future confirm exactly what it is. I have never grown a tree from seed as such so if nothing else it will be a learning experience. For fun, whilst on a walk over the nearby Country Park, I also collected an Acorn that had fallen from the tree; the Oaks appear to be covered in Acorns this year. I have planted this in a pot at home also in the hope I might be able to grow an Oak. I have no idea what I will do with the tree's should I prove successful but that is a problem for a year or two from now and I shall simply enjoy trying to grow on the tree's for now.
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