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Honeysuckles are another plant that tends to get left and becomes overgrown. For all deciduous honey- suckles (those that drop their leaves in winter), cut back the stems as soon as they have grown as tall as you want them to be. Thin out any overgrown and tangled branches, cutting back by around one third to a new side shoot. The only exceptions are Japanese honeysuckles which are evergreen and need pruning in late spring.


Borders: To keep borders neat and protect more tender plants during the winter, after a good weed, cover the ground between plants with about four inches of mulch, either homemade compost, composted bark or well-rotted manure if the plants could do with a feed.


Lawns: If you are needing to lay any new lawn from turf or seed, or indeed plant up a new meadow, September is always the best time to do it. We are currently putting in a wildflower meadow for an eco-house project in Bristol, and the seed will usually take better in September than April as there tends to be a higher rainfall on average to help germination. This is also the ideal time of year


to scarify your lawn, raking out the thatch that has accumulated at the base of the grasses and giving it a good aeration and feed. Alternatively, you can borrow someone’s hens, like


Sid watching the hens


I’ve done for three weeks while a neighbour is on holiday, and they do it for you! I move the run each night and they scratch up the thatch and fertilize as they go – we get a few eggs each day as an added bonus. Sid, our dog, loves watching them all day too.


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