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Gardening Tips
Your monthly gardening tips for indoors and outdoors
Planting
• Now's the time to add a splash of colour to your patio with hanging baskets and
containers and keep them regularly watered.
• Plant out summer bedding plants such as begonia, lobelia, geraniums, pansies and
Busy Lizzies at the end of the month.
• In the veggie garden sow winter Savoy cabbages, beetroot, French beans, runner
beans, squash and cucumber seeds into prepared beds.
• By sowing basil, coriander and parsley every fortnight you'll enjoy a rotating crop
for delicious summer salads!
Maintenance
• The best defence against pests and diseases is to keep all your plants healthy and
growing vigorously. Like humans, if you're healthy you're less likely to get ill!
• Spraying roses every two weeks with a rose spray such as Rose Clear should keep
things looking good and healthy. If you do find any leaves with black spot then remove
them and destroy them, don't put them on the compost heap.
• Minimise places that may harbour garden diseases by keeping your garden neat and
tidy. Be sure to clear all dead leaves and fallen fruit and cut out all weak, damaged and
dead growth from your plants.
• Weed diligently, at least once a week. You'll reap the rewards you know!
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