13 December 2024
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Ruth gets on with pruning, planting, dividing and watering
As June moves towards its end , seem after the garden is a bit like herding cats – everything is run on everywhere , growing in all directions and the nurseryman is severely - pressed to acknowledge where to turn first . The beds demand weeding , the nursery require cool and shading , container and baskets ask watering and feeding and the first early crops need harvesting . All this before we commence planting out the seed - grown peak and vegetables and tender plants that we have been nurturing through the winter .
One of the independent jobs is to contract back any shrub that bloom in early summertime , mixed bag such as weigela and philadelphus . They are pruned now to give them sentence to grow before going sleeping in the fall , because each year ’s flowers are bring forth on root word that grew the late time of year . If you delay pruning , they wo n’t have time to put on enough growth for a arresting show next outpouring .
Pruning involves removing any dead or discredited wood , as well as diseased shank that are cut down back to healthy material . Then take out any stems that are spindly or growing inwards , to produce an attractive open bush with a secure fabric , and remove any ramification that are cross or fray as they will damage each other . Then feed and mulch your plant to avail them recover .
We have found that one way of removing some of the air is to turn No Mow may into No Mow Summer , and countenance the lawn grow with only a few access paths mown around the edge of borders and through the middle . The bisect back lawn , which is full of ox - eye daisies , salad burnett , trefoil , kingcup and scabious , looks like a twosome of lungs breathe life into the garden . It is full of dirt ball , admit the rare and protected lowly blue butterfly , birds and hedgehogs , and at night we have bat swoop up overhead .
It ’s us doing our bit for nature , and we finger better for it .
separate dahlias
bare splitting works well
1 . disregard your shoot - fill Tuber into pieces , ensure each piece has sizable roots and shoots . Pot them up in peat - free multipurpose compost such as Westland ’s Boost then plant them out when they have develop and been hardened off .
2 . Pinch out tall growing tips to the next pair of leave of absence to boost bushy growth and a greater number of flowers .
Greenhouse health
