Flower garden
- Summer prune wisteria, shortening all long wispy sideshoots back to about 20cm
- Water hydrangea bushes with a hydrangea colourant for true blue colour next summer
- Layer long sideshoots of border carnations into soil prepared with potting compost. Make a slit in each stem, peg down to hold firm, and wait to root
- Water plants, such as roses,
- Deadhead geraniums and other bedding plants so they don't waste energy setting seed, and to keep plants looking tidy
- Water hanging baskets and pots of summer-flowering bedding plants. Never let compost completely dry out or it can be very difficult to re-wet
Fruit and Veg Garden
- Pick fresh herbs for drying
- Water strawberry runners, cutting them from the parent plant when well rooted
- Sow vegetables such as endive, lettuces and salad leaves, rocket, radishes, spring cabbages,
In the Greenhouse
- Take cuttings from fuchsias, pelargoniums, marguerites and other tender perennials
- Hang up yellow sticky traps to monitor and control whitefly and other flying pests
- Feed plants in pots
- Pot on rooted cuttings to keep plants growing strongly
Around The Garden
- Trim hedges to keep them neat
- Top up compost or bark mulches around heathers
- Hoe and hand weed borders
- Water hanging baskets and patio containers regularly
- Deadhead flowers and remove old leaves
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