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Order your Winter
Bedding Plants |
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Browse our Christmas
Gift Ideas. |
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Another good time of year to treat
your fence panels with preservatives.
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Tidy up and fork any spare ground.
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Link: Composting |
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Continue to plant
winter
lettuce and spring cabbage. |
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Continue to earth up
celery
& leeks. |
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Protect
cauliflowers
by bending a leaf over the curd.
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Hoe between vegetables & check
for slug damage &
disease.
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Cut over
asparagus
beds.
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When storing
onions
remove loose scales as this is where mould begins.
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Tidy and
clean out cold
frames ready
for use.
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Remove old plant remains for
composting. Burn any diseased crops.
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Take
semi-ripe cuttings of herbs and
protect them under
cloches. |
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Sow broad
beans under
cloches. |
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Use
supports for brussels sprouts, as they can be blown over by high
winds.
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Dig up and
pot on chicory roots to force into chicons in the dark.
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Links: Vegetables
- Potatoes
- Mushrooms - Vegetable
Seeds |
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Plant new trees or
shrubs. |
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Take cuttings of gooseberries & blackberries.
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Prune gooseberries
& cane fruit.
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Tidy up broken or diseased
branches.
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Grease band
apples
& cherries.
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Spray peaches
against leaf curl.
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Control
woolly
aphids with a spray like 'Provado
Ultimate'. |
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Remember - that apples in
storage should be wrapped separately, but pears should not be wrapped at
all.
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Now is the time for root pruning.
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Links: Fruit
- Apples
- Strawberries |
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Plant crown
imperials, wallflowers,
forget-me-knots,
polyanthus etc and firm well in.
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Tidy up & trim flowerbed perennials.
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Make a final sowing of hardy annuals.
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Take cuttings of
penstemon, calceolaria & hydrangea. |
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Move sweet
peas which have germinated under
glass to the cold
frame.
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Divide herbaceous
perennials.
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Sow alpines
in the
cold
frame. |
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Continue to plant bulbs
especially tulips.
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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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Mulch
azaleas,
rhododendrons
and camellias
with ericaceous compost. |
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Continue
to plant evergreen trees & shrubs, also permanent
climbers like
clematis
&
wisteria. |
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Take hardwood cuttings. |
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Continue
to remove dead wood. |
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Links:
Conifers
- Japanese
Maples - Trees
- Magnolias
- Rhododendrons
- Plants |
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Palm
Trees - Hedging
- Topiary |
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Continue to mow when the lawn is
dry. |
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Now is a good time to lay
turf
and
damaged areas can be repaired with
lawn
seed. |
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Rake out moss & aerate by
spiking. |
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If necessary apply a dressing of
sharp sand to improve soil & drainage. |
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Links:
Lawns
- Lawn
Mowers |
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Sow annuals for next year. |
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Pot up rooted cuttings.
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Indoor bulbs can be planted and
kept cool.
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Be careful not to over water. |
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Clean your
greenhouse glass and in cold areas line the windows with bubble wrap
for extra insulation. |
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Links:
Greenhouses
- Tomatoes
- Cucumbers |
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Links:
House
Plants - Orchids |
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Links:
Water
Gardening - Water
Features - Aquatic
Plants |
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Look
out for... |
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Red
Admiral Butterfly |
| Description: Red Admiral is a 60mm wingspan migrant butterfly that flies to Britain from elsewhere in Europe. It can be found from spring to autumn but is most frequently seen in late summer-autumn. |
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Where to find them: This butterfly visits the flowers of ivy, Michaelmas daisy, buddleia and many other garden flowers to feed on nectar. The caterpillar stage feeds on the leaves of stinging nettles. For further information on butterflies and moths, see
www.butterfly-conservation.org. |
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Links:
Wildlife
- Birds - Frogs,
Toads & Newts - Hedgehogs |
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Flowers
that attract wildlife |
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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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