Our busy Vice Chairman has produced this handy list of tasks which we should all be doing in and around the garden this month:
1. Kitchen Garden
- continue successional sowings of salad crops and herbs- sow french and runner beans direct into soil
- plant out brussels sprouts, tomatoes, courgettes and pumpkins
- earth up potatoes when shoots are 25 cm high
2. Pest watch!
- keep an eye out for gooseberry sawfly damage and American gooseberry mildew
- watch out for red lily beetle on lilies
- check roses for blackspot and aphids
3. Glasshouse and Indoors
- pot on root-bound house plants
- apply shade paint (cool glass) or use blinds on greenhouses and conservatories
4. Shrubs and climbers
- clip evergreen hedges
- prune spring flowering shrubs
- prune overgrown clematis montana after flowering and wall trained pyracantha
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