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Order your Autumn
Bedding Plants |
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Weeding and watering
needs to be done regularly.
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Mow your lawn at least once a
week. |
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Deadhead faded flowers.
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Hanging baskets will dry
out on a daily basis, water or add a drip
irrigation system. |
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Trim privet hedges.
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Link: Composting |
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Sow beet,
carrot & lettuce. |
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Plant out
broccoli, winter cabbage, leaks, sprouts and kale for winter use.
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Plant out indoor raised leeks for winter harvesting. |
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Pinch out the tips of broad bean shoots to prevent Blackfly.
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Protect summer
cauliflowers
by bending leaves over the curd.
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Lift shallots. |
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When early crops are lifted and
used replace with winter vegetables or successive sowings of lettuce and
radish.
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Links: Vegetables
- Potatoes
- Mushrooms - Vegetable
Seeds |
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Fruit Bushes - Cover with netting to keep birds
off. |
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Currants
& Raspberries prune after fruiting. |
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Strawberries - Replace damp or old straw with new
under any new fruit. |
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Apples - Thin out apple
fruitlets for bigger crops and the prevention of sagging
and snapping of branches. |
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Train cordons,
fans, espaliers
etc.
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Prune new
blackberry canes.
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Links: Fruit
- Apples
- Strawberries |
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If necessary - Lift and divide flag irises after
flowering. |
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Divide clumps of congested
primulas and polyanthus. |
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Remove faded flowers.
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Plant out biennials.
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Cuttings - Take cuttings of
hydrangeas, philadelphus, fuchsia, pyracantha, wiegela ,pelargoniums, violas &
pansies. Divide
polyanthus, arabis
etc. |
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Roses - Deadhead and pick
off any leaves with disease. Remove any diseased leaves
that have fallen off around the base, bin or burn these - do not
compost. |
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Support tall flowers like
gladioli, foxgloves and delphiniums.
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Water gladioli and sweet peas
generously.
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Carnations
can be layered.
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Trim back spring flowering
alpines.
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Links:
Bedding
Plants & Annuals - Plants
- Flowers
that attract wildlife - Alpines |
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Hanging
Baskets - Roses
- Climbing
Plants - Fuchsias |
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Trim privet hedges and clip evergreens. |
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Prune deutschia
& wiegela.
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Now is a good time to layer shrubs of all kinds inc.
shrub
roses.
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Links:
Conifers
- Japanese
Maples - Trees
- Magnolias
- Rhododendrons
- Plants |
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Palm
Trees - Hedging
- Topiary |
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Cut & weed regularly.
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Trim edges. Installing
lawn
edging
will prevent further damage. |
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Links:
Lawns
- Lawn
Mowers |
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Watch out for greenfly - pick off
and squash between fingers or used a soap based spray.
Add some washing up liquid to water in a sprayer, shake
well for froth and spray. |
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Damp down on hot days (cover floor
with water). |
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Prevent scorching by putting up
netting blinds or shade painting. |
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Tomatoes - Pinch out the
tops of tomatoes
if tall enough and remove any sideshoots. Feed with a
high potash liquid feed to encourage fruit. |
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Train crops to canes or supports
and tie in any sideshoots. |
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Begonias - Pot on to
slighlty larger pots.
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Cuttings - Take cuttings of sutera, argyranthemum,
osteospermum, nepeta, scaevola, nemesia, helychrysum and other summer bedding plants. |
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Sow auriculas for inside use.
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Project - Add guttering and
a
water
butt to your
greenhouse for chlorine free water. |
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Links:
Greenhouses
- Tomatoes
- Cucumbers |
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Water and feed. |
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Links:
House
Plants - Orchids |
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Remove blanket weed
and duckweed from ponds, leave at edge of pond for a
couple of hours for any resident wildlife to crawl back
in the water. Clean out pond filters every week or so.
Top up falling water levels with rainwater not tap water
using a water
butt. |
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Links:
Water
Gardening - Water
Features - Aquatic
Plants |
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Give
your bird tables and feeders a good clean. Keep a look
out for nesting birds in hedges and climbers before
trimming. Check lawn for frogs and newts before mowing
and strimming. |
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Look
out for... |
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Marmalade hoverfly |
| Description: The Marmalade hoverfly is unique amongst the 276 species of hoverflies in Britain in having double black stripes on some of the abdominal body segments. It is about 8mm long. |
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Where to find them: It is one of the most common hoverflies and can be seen visiting garden flowers to feed on pollen and nectar from spring to early autumn. It has larvae that feed on greenfly and other aphids.
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Interesting fact: Hoverflies have the ability to hover in flight, hence their common name. For further information on hoverflies, see
www.hoverfly.org.uk. |
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Links:
Wildlife
- Birds - Frogs,
Toads & Newts - Hedgehogs |
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Flowers
that attract wildlife |
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1st
- 3rd July - Lincolnshire - All About Gardening  |
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5th
- 10th July - Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
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20th -
24th
July - RHS
Flower Show Tatton Park |
| 'Shows
& Events' Page. |
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Links:
Shows &
Events Calendar - Chelsea
Flower Show - Hampton
Court Flower Show |
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Tatton
Park Flower Show |
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