Gardening Tips
Your fortnightly gardening tips for indoors and outdoors |
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ALPINES
Take cuttings of mat-forming plants such as campanula, aurinia ( alyssum),phlox, dianthus
and aubrietia.
ARTICHOKES.
Pick heads as soon as they are plump and round and before they open at the top.
LAYERING.
Layer low shoots of camellias, magnolias and climbers now, by pinning them to the soil
with wire hoops.
ASPARAGUS.
Stop picking now, even established clumps, and allow the 'fern' to grow and strengthen the
plants.
PONDS.
Finish any planting, and float tender plants like water hyacinth and azolia (fairy fern)
on the surface now that the water is warm.
POTATOES.
Water early varieties in dry weather to ensure even growth and good crops. Earth-up main
crop varieties to prevent greening and help protect against potato blight.
SWEET PEAS.
Check plants for viral disease. If leaves are mottled and yellow and flowers blotchy, they
are probably infected and should be pulled up and burned. Control aphids (greenfly) to
prevent the problem spreading.
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Stories |
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It was my first time out with a new boyfriend and I was
very nervous. I just wanted to survive without embarrassing myself and I was trying really
hard.
He was very proud of his car, it was his pride and joy. He collected me for our date and
we went out and took a stroll along the seafront. After an ice-creme we went back to his
car to go to the pictures and I hopped in.
It wasn't long before a really horrible stench reached my nostrils. I has stepped in some
dog pooh and had trod it into his nice car mats. Needless to say, the relationship ended! |
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