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How to avoid the holiday horrors


by Hannah Stephenson


GOING on holiday this year? Just as your containers and hanging baskets are getting into full bloom and your borders are a mass of colour, you face the dilemma that two weeks later you are going to return from your summer break to an eyesore of wilted plants and dried-out pots. If you are lucky enough to have


friendly neighbours or family near­ by who will water your garden when you are away then you won’t have a problem - otherwise it could be dis­ astrous. But there are some measures you


hanging baskets that will suffer most. They need watering thoroughly every day in summer, sometimes twice (early morning and late evening), even when i t rains, and could do with feeding from time to time as well, unless you remembered to add slow-release fer­ tiliser granules to your pots and bas­ kets when you first prepared them. Take down hanging baskets after


can take which can limit the damage that two weeks away in high summer can do to your garden. I t is likely to be your containers and


giving them a thorough soaking. Some people dunk the bases of the baskets in a large bucket full of water which can help retain moisture at the base of the basket. Once they have been watered, dig a small hole in a shady part of the garden big enough to sit the basket in without damaging the plants in the side of the basket. Drench them again so that the soil underneath the basket is also wet and protect the area from slugs. All pots and containers should be


placed in a shady spot, such as an alleyway along the side of your house, away from sun and sheltered from the wind, which will dry out your pots. But leave them exposed so that if it does rain they will at least get some benefit. Feed them and water them


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really good soaking and take off all the flowers from plants in containers, not just the dead ones, because this will encourage a new flush of growth on your return. If you do not mind investing a bit of


time and effort, set up a simple auto­ matic watering system using an upturned bottle full of water set into the container. The water will be slowly released as the compost dries out. Alternatively, if you can afford it


irrigation system, which has a supply pipe that carries the water around the garden and micro-tubing which can be fitted with nozzles that drip water at an even rate. Starter kits can be added to, if you need more pipe, connectors and nozzles. The system can be con­ nected to an outside tap and automat­ ed by adding a timing device or water computer.


long, make sure when you mow it that the mower’s blades are raised so that it is not cut too short straight away. Gradually lower the blades over the next two or three cuts. Then, hopefully, your dream holiday


won’t end with a return to a nightmare garden.


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well before you go away. Alternatively, invest in some moisture-retentive cap­ illary matting fed from a tin bath of water and sit your pots on the mat­ ting. This will keep them moist for at least some of the time you are away. The day you leave, give the pots a


should be rewarded with blooms all summer. However, petunias hate pro­ longed wet weather - i t makes the flowers soggy and sticky, quickly tum- ing.brown. They enjoy a sunny situation and


will grow in any reasonable garden soil, flowering between June until the first frosts.


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as cornflower and clarkia to fill in any gaps you have in the border. • Summer prune wall-trained


plums and cherries, with the exception of Morello, by shortening the side- shoots which have made growth over the last couple of months, by a third. • Take advantage of the good


weather to patch and paint glasshous­ es and frames. • Encourage clematis in flower to


bloom again in late summer by apply­ ing a liquid feed. ' • Keep watering containers, win­


dow boxes and hanging baskets daily. •P la n t autumn-flowering bulbs


such as amaryllis, nerines and autumn crocuses.


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