Gardening Tips
Your fortnightly gardening tips for indoors and outdoors |
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Vegetables
Clear crops from the soil to allow winter digging. Plan your crops for next year,
including crop rotation to minimise damage by soil pests and diseases. If a soil test
suggests that your soil needs lime, apply it to areas on which you want to grow brassicas
such as cabbages, turnips and sprouts Never apply lime as a matter of course.
Weeds
Hoe and rake off annual weeds such as chickweed and shepherd's purse. Chickweed can
harbour virus diseases that will infect courgettes and marrows next year.
Cold Damage
Protect shrubs and slightly tender perennials with horticultural fleece or chicken wire
stuffed with straw when cold weather is forecast. Hardy shrubs such as fuchsias will
benefit from generous mulch of bark or coir around the base to keep off the worst of the
frost.
Root Cuttings
If you are lifting and dividing herbaceous plants it is the ideal opportunity to take root
cuttings. Trim the thickest roots into sections about 2in(5cm) long and insert these
vertically or horizontally in compost and cover lightly. Suitable plants are Japanese
anemones, acanthus (bear's breeches) and echinops.
Paths
Stop paths from becoming slippery with algae by washing with a product for the purpose,
making sure that it won't cause discolouration of the surface.
Catalogues
Have a rest and keep warm with a sherry and the latest seed catalogues and plan the
flowers and vegetables that will fill your garden in 2004. |
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1500s Fact
Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the
family got the middle and guests got the top or "Upper crust". |
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Stories |
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A friend of mine was telling me about a date he had with a
girl who was wearing a short dress. They got a table in a pub, he'd sat down and the girl
was putting her bag on the floor. As she was bending over slightly my friend was looking
up her dress but he toppled over as he tried to see more and he ended up on the floor!
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you jog backwards will you put weight on? |
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Dear Editor
I would like to put right a few facts regarding Poppy Appeal and the Remembrance Day
Service in Sheringham. |
Comments made in another local paper were I
feel very misleading and the record needs to be set straight as we rely heavily on local
donations to continue our welfare work.
One comment was that only the names of those lost in the First and Second World Wars were
read out at the service. This is true and for a very good reason. Sheringham, luckily, has
not to our knowledge lost anyone during conflict since the last World War. Should this
happen, their name would be added to the memorial and be read out at future services.
Also, the Poppy Appeal in Sheirngham this year has raised £7292.41 so far, we are still
receiving donations. Every year we try to beat the last years total and with less than
£200 or so to go, we are still hoping to do it again, so fingers crossed! (All donations
gratefully received, you can hand them in to the Paper)
B Farrow. Poppy Organiser |
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