Gardening Tips
Your fortnightly gardening tips for indoors and outdoors |
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Flowers, Shrubs and Trees
Keep deadheading annuals. Dry flowers including hydrangeas for winter arrangements.
Save seed pods of flowers you want to propagate. Keep deadheading roses and
spray against aphids and mildew. Begin planting spring flowering bulbs.
Prepare the soil for planting trees and shrubs in the winter by digging in manure and
compost. Order roses, shrubs, bulbs and herbaceous plants. Start planting lily
bulbs.
Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs
Continue sowing winter cabbage, lettuce and spinach. Thin out earlier sowings.
Start to order new fruit trees and bushes to plant in the winter. Continue to
plant strawberries. Take cuttings of blackcurrant, gooseberry and redcurrant bushes.
Cuttings should be about 9in of this years wood. When blackberries and
raspberries etc have fruited, cut the canes back and stake the new ones. Towards the
end of the month pull up your tomato plants. Unripened fruit will ripen if put in a
paper bag in a drawer. Other jobs, keep weeding, rake your lawn to rid it of dead grass
and moss. Give it autumn lawn fertilizer and aerate it. Complete any maintenance
jobs before the weather breaks. Remove all plants from the greenhouse and wash it
with Jeyes fluid, scrubbing benches. Close the windows and give it a smoke.
Continue taking pelargonium cuttings. Also try impatiens and fuchsias.
| Embarrassing Stories |
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My brother was celebrating having passed his final Uni exams. He was a couple of years
older than me, but had included me in the party. Alas, I decided to try and keep up with
his drinking antics with him and his mates and consumed copious amounts of snakebite
(cider and lager). I fancied one of his mates at the time, and was trying to be quite
flirtatious with him. All of a sudden the alcohol caught up with me and I vomited all over
the guys shirt.
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CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
FESTIVITIES
On 25th November the High Street, Station Road, Church Street and Wyndham
Street will be closed from 3 pm to 9.30 pm and the ceremonial Switch On of lights around
the Town Clock by Aladdin will take place at 6 pm. From around 4 pm the public will
be entertained in the streets by Stilt Walkers, Johnny Jumble, Misterfied (Ballon
Modelling), Face Painters, Punch and Judy, A Street Organ, Coconut Shy Stall, Crossbow
Stall and Kiddies Roundabouts plus many food stalls.
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