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Order your 'Winter
Bedding Plants' to
spice up your garden over the cold winter months.
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Lift
& frost rhubarb crowns for forcing. |
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Order
your seeds online. |
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Order seed
potatoes this month. |
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Box up
seed potatoes with the rose end uppermost. |
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In mild
areas sow broad beans. |
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If pruning is
necessary cut out dead wood in all types of fruit
trees. |
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Spray trees
with tar oil winter
wash. |
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Check tree
ties & plant supports for wear. |
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Remove big
buds on blackcurrants. |
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Tidy borders
& fork lightly between perennials. |
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Plant lilies,
antirrhinums etc. |
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Sweet peas
- Pinch out the tips of seedlings raised from autumn sowings to
encourage sideshoots to form and make bushy plants. |
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Check corms and tubers in store for signs of rot or
deterioration. Remove diseased ones and sprinkle others with sulphur
powder to prevent disease attack. |
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Violas
in cold frames need good ventilation. |
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Continue planting
bare-rooted roses. Avoid
planting new roses where old ones have been removed, unless the soil
is replaced and conditioned, to avoid diseases. |
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Spray roses
and surrounding soil with winter wash. |
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This is a good
time to move shrubs that are growing in the wrong place or those
that have outgrown their position. Aim to lift
established plants with as large a rootball as possible. Prepare
the soil in the new planting hole well, digging compost deeply into
it. Firm the soil around the transplanted shrub, and provide a stake
for support if required. Water in well and mulch with bark or
compost. It may be necessary to prune out a few shoots from very
large transplanted shrubs, as the damaged root system may not be
able to support them. |
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Be ready to brush snow from evergreen shrubs and conifers, as the weight can weigh down and damage their branches. |
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Check your
frost protection on new or non hardy shrubs. |
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Mulch
Azaleas,
Rhododendrons
etc. |
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Brush off
dead leaves & twigs. |
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Rake mossy
& weedy areas. |
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Service your
mower. |
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Deter
children & pets from using the lawn when its wet. |
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Sow leeks,
onions, carrots, lettuce. |
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Sow annuals
for early flowering. |
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Clean &
fumigate staging &
pots. |
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Move pot-grown
peaches and nectarines under cover for winter. An unheated greenhouse
is ideal. Keeping rain off these fruit trees prevents the spread of
spores of peach leaf curl disease. It also protects their early
flowers from frost. |
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Take cuttings
of late chrysanthemums. |
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Keep plants
on the dry side and in the best possible light. |
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Bring in
winter
jasmine, daphnia, American current
etc. to flower inside. |
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Keep
winter-flowering houseplants in a cool position in good light to
extend their flowering season, avoiding draughts or any dry hot
spots, such as on a table by a fire or radiator. Move tender plants from
cold windowsills at night and bring them into the centre of the room. |
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Do not rush
bulbs into light wait until the leaves and flowers can be seen. |
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Float a ball on the water to
assist aeration in icy periods. |
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Keep water clear of debris. |
