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Gardening Tips

August 2016

  • Order autumn and spring flowering bulbs. Autumn varieties also need to be planted this month.
  • Pruning your wisteria this month will not only tidy it up but will also divert its energy from producing tendrils to producing flower buds for next year
  • Last chance to buy bedding plants to brighten your autumn, winter and spring garden 
  • Rambling roses that have finished flowering can now be pruned
  • Continue picking sweet peas and removing any seed heads. Also mulch, feed and water. They’ll be finished all too soon.
  • Keep an eye on the level of water in your pond and top up from the hose when necessary. This will also help to oxygenate the water.
  • Water, feed, deadhead. Water, feed, deadhead. And keep repeating. 
  • To avoid that empty garden winter look plant some evergreens
  • Some hardy annuals can be sown direct in their flowering positions meaning early flowers next spring/summer.
  • Sow lettuce, onion and pak choi seedshub.suttons.co.uk/newsletter/august-2016-newsletter
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