Garden Notes for November 2023 Prepare for the spring by digging and manuring the vegetable patch in November. Remember to keep a 3-year rotation so that potatoes (for example) are not planted in the same area two years running. Remember to get your tulips planted before the end of the month. Try layer planting of tulips in containers. Do this Continue Reading →
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Garden Notes for October 2023. October is the month to start clearing away summer growth and preparing for the next growing season. This will generate a lot of material. By far the best use is to compost it. Composting is very important, no matter how large or small your garden is. Shredding woody material and large items like cabbage stalks Continue Reading →
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Garden Notes for September 2023. As John Keats so famously wrote about autumn being the “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness/ close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”, September sees the time when crops are harvested and stored for the winter months that are to come. Carrots should be lifted and stored before the roots start to split, which they will Continue Reading →
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Laurel is a very useful plant but it is very vigorous and August is the month to keep it neat by trimming your laurel hedge. Some gardeners say that the laurel hedge should be trimmed using secaturs only. This does give a much improved finish, if you have the time. Using shears is much quicker and does not substantially make Continue Reading →
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Garden Notes for July 2023. In order to keep the wonderful flowers going it is worth the trouble to go round and ‘dead-heading’ by taking out the flowers that have gone over. This will encourage new growth and keep a continuation of colour in your garden July should be the time when everything starts catching up and roses will need Continue Reading →
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Garden Notes for June 2023. There is so much to do in June. Keep lawns mowed, but do not set the blades too low as this allows the plants to survive if there is a lack of moisture. Lawns always look so much more tidy if the edges are kept cut as well as the centre. In the vegetable plot, Continue Reading →
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A New Year’s resolution for gardeners might be to plan ahead. But it is not easy when the best laid plans can be thwarted by inappropriate weather patterns. Why is it always so unexpected? That is one of Life’s many mysteries. Anyway, here goes. Clear away stems and roots of green crops like cabbages once they have finished and try Continue Reading →
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