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What To Do This Week (Page 3 of 9)
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October Garden Journal Tips & Tricks * Use a compost worm to aerate your compost heap and accelerate the decomposition process. * Spray roses with Rose Shield or Eco-rose fungicide to prevent black spot. * Protect new flower shoots on emerging lilies from slugs and snails with a good, safe snail bait. ...
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Tips & Tricks Pinch out central growing tip of petunia seedlings once they have settled into the ground to encourage bushier plants and more flowers. Spreading petunias are fantastic mass-planted or in baskets. Prune ornamental flowering cherries, peaches, crabapples etc only after flow...
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September journal Jobs to do * Water flowering bulbs with liquid fertiliser to encourage a longer flowering period. * Feed everything in the garden with a pelletised manure. * Soft tip cuttings can be taken while your plants are growing well. Push 3 cuttings into a pot and make a mini glass house over...
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Tips & Tricks Make up a hanging basket using sphagnum moss as the liner inside a wire frame. Poke seedlings through the side walls. Annual fertilising of lawn can alter the pH of the soil. Scatter a light dusting of lime over an aerated lawn to sweeten the soil. Consider a birdbath &n...
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Jobs to do The garden is coming alive as warmer weather and longer days are on the agenda. Take a walk around the garden and check how all the plants are going. Make notes on what needs doing. Prune hydrangeas back to the two fattest buds on each stem. Cut out all the weak spindly growth. Use ...
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