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gardening tips
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HE HARD work is done, you are enjoying your garden and any sunshine that is generous enough to shine overhead, while you kick back and let nature take its course – well not quite. they fade, to keep them tidy and to encour- age new blooms. Water plants daily and feed them once a week.
Keep your bedding plants healthy and in bloom with regular deadheading, watering, and feeding with a high potash fertiliser. Roses growing in dry sheltered areas against walls are prone to powdery mildew, so keep roots moist by incorporating organic matter in autumn and applying mulches in spring. Give your soil a boost of nutrients with a green manure. Scatter seeds over the sur- face of the soil and water in well. The weevil and its larvae can be one of the most destructive pests to garden plants. Apply biological controls around vulnerable plants before the grubs begin to hatch. Take cuttings from healthy shoots and you’ll have new plants in a few weeks time. Saving seeds is a great way of propagating plants from your garden. Look out for seed- pods that look as if they’re about to split and cut off the entire seed head. If you notice
large purple spots on the surface of your rose leaves, it’s probably suffering from black spot. Remove infected leaves and burn.
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