Garden Maintenance

Garden Maintenance in March – 2

Continuing our garden maintenance theme now that Spring is in the air and the garden is crying out for colour, it’s time to turn your attention to ensuring that you get your hardy annuals going by sowing them either in pots, trays or modules. Sweet Peas can be started off too, I generally nick the [...]

Garden Maintenance in March – 1

March will soon be upon us and it is the time of year when there are lots of jobs to do and the weather is fit to get out into the garden and enjoy doing them. Fruit and Vegetables need your attention at this time of year and you should be busy preparing the seedbeds [...]

Garden Maintenance in July – 4

Rounding up the garden maintenance jobs for July you need to look after your lawns. They will need some water if it is very dry and a final feed when the ground is damp after a shower. If it is very dry then don’t forget to set your lawn mower blades a little higher so [...]

Garden Maintenance in July – 3

July is a month to watch out for the dreaded Lily Beetle amongst other pests. The scarlet lily beetles look quite spectacular until you see the damage they can do. It caused me immense grief last year to have to dispose of all my lilies which had become infested almost overnight. They were all pot [...]

Garden Maintenance in July – 2

Once you have the vegetable garden under control it’s time to look at the more decorative aspects of your garden – the flowers and trees. One of the things I love doing is pruning – sometimes I can be a little over enthusiastic, but generally most things will benefit from a good ‘haircut’ as my [...]

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