* Water bearded iris and feed with rose food. * Spread compost over your garden to enrich soil. * Sprinkle wood ash over the garden to promote flowering. * Feed your garden with pelletised manure. * Last opportunity to prune roses * Liquid feed sweet peas, daffodils, tulips, pansies, poppies and primulas to prolong floweri...
Time for tubers: Plant potato tubers. Allow the 'eyes' to develop before planting into a sunny spot with well-composted soil. Fertilise with Seasol Earthcare PowerFeed regularly. Mound the soil up over the emerging growth when it reaches 10cm. Repeat then allow to grow. Harvest when the mature foliage starts to die back....
Prune roses in temperate gardens. In cold areas with heavy frost wait until late August.Lift perennials, divide root system with sharp spade, renovate the soil with compost or soil conditioner then replant root divisions.Plant Bare-rotted deciduous fruit trees. Plant roses, pansies, polyanthus, geranium, winter vege...
Winter is here and it is a great season for rejuvenating and tidying up. Here are a few things you can be doing this week* Broad beans can still go in as can pod peas, sugar snap and snow peas.* Spray frost sensitive plants with 'Drought Shield' the new name for StressGuard* Dead head rosesbut hold off the hard prune unt...
Enjoy the scent of Heliotrope 'Cherry pie'.Feed Cymbidium orchids with Aquasol.Build your pea and broad bean trellis now. Sandra and Linda completed theirs last week, and this week we are planting our bean and pea seeds.Now its stopped raining you can plant legumes: broad beans, peas (podded, snow and sugarsnap) and swee...
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