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Garlic you can still plant garlic in mild areas, either plant into free draining soil or pop single cloves into containers filled with multi purpose compost ..... |
Summer Bedding remove any faded summer bedding blooms from pots and baskets to freshen up your displays, if they are still holding on |
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Winter Salads sow some cut and come again salad leaves in a wide pot of seed and cutting compost put them on a bright window for winter salads ..... |
Lift
and Divide
plants such as artemisia, campanula, crocosmia plox can be lifted and divided if they had a poor show of flowers or have become overcrowded |
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Dalias and Cannas once the first frost has hit your dalias and cannas lift them and store in a greenhouse or in milder areas leave in the ground and cover with straw ..... |
Spring
Bedding
its time to plant spring bedding like wallflower primulas and violas, plant daffodils, snowdrops crocus bulbs, dont plant tulips until november |
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Sweet Pea Heaven sweet pea flowers have a scent to die for start sowing them now, then again in january then again in may for flowers april to october ..... |
Conifers
conifer are great and afordable, evergreen and need very little attention, they give structure to the garden, can be easily clipped, birds nest in them |
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Greenhouse Heaters now is time to check your greenhouse heaters are working whether they are parrafin, electric or gas make sure they point away from anything flamable ..... |
Mice
mice like to get into warm greenhouses now is time to block up holes to stop them, set traps the humane type, they love crocus bulbs |
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Hibernation happiness is a pile of leaves for mammals looking for somewhere to sleep, ground feeding birds will also rest here as will insects and invertebrates ..... |
Bird
Feeding Habits
hanging feeders attract finches, tits and sparrows bird tables attract robins, greenfinch & sparrows blackbirds, thrushes & wrens are ground feeders |
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Dig It time to dig over empty beds and vegtable plots this will get you ahead for next years sowing it will also expose pests for the hungry birds ..... |
Wind
Rock
prune roses, buddlia, hibiscus, lavateria and many other shrubs to prevent autumn wind rock, shallow roots are easily dislodged by wind |
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Fill Your House With Plants not much happening in the garden why not fill your home with plants, african violets, anthuriums cacti, citrus, coleus pelergoniums or begonias ..... |
Early
Potatoes
for an early potato crop in the spring, plant your first early potatoes now and cover them with straw to protect them from the frost |
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House Plants reduce the watering of your house plants now due to the low light levels their growth rate will slow down very soon then stop ..... |
Hyacinths
this is your last chance to plant up prepared hyacinth bulbs if you want them to flower in time for christmas and new year |
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Trees go to the garden centre and buy a fruit tree or two prepare the ground before planting put a handful of bone meal in the hole first ..... |
Tree
Pruning
it is time to prune apple and pear trees if they are leggy it would be worth cutting branches back by one third to just above a bud or joint |
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Clear Summer Bedding remove summer bedding that is still left in your borders, replace them with a fresher display of winter heathers, pansies, violas and primrose ..... |
Faded
House Plants
if a house plant isnt looking to good, ease it from its pot examine it, to much water shows as dark brown roots, to dry the compost falls away |
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