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for drying. I’ll also save a few so I can grow on new plants next spring.
Courgettes: These have pretty much finished now, though they might just last until the first frost. Clear away the plants and add them to the compost. I lightly dig over the soil where they have been to help break it up.
Fruit trees: Plums can be pruned now and I’ll be doing my tree this year as it is touching the neighbours’ house. Whatever the variety, pruning of plums should be cut back once
they have finished producing. I have two plum trees: one is ‘Pershore Purple’, a local variety and very tasty, which crops in August – while in the back garden there is a ‘Bullace’ which is usually a hedgerow tree in Worcestershire. This has small red and yellow plums about one third of the size of normal plums – they are very sweet and it has cropped amazingly well this year. In my opinion, plums are usually bi-annual in that they tend to have a good year and then a sparse year to follow.
Pruning climbers: This is the ideal month to prune many of your climb- ers. Many people neglect to do this and the plants become overgrown and don’t flower so well. For summer jasmine, cut back the
stems after flowering – the aim is to create a framework of branches that are well spaced and not too entan- gled. If you have a very overgrown plant, be brave and cut back the neglected plant to about half a metre from the ground to reinvigorate it.
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