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Here are some gardening tips, there will be new tips added every month. So keep checking...
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- Garden tools can be repaired and serviced
- Clean patios, paths and decking areas of moss and dirt
- Order begonia tubers and lily bulbs and pot them up
- Give wisteria its first pruning of the year
- Water container plants sparingly
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- Prune roses towards the end of the month in milder areas
- Mist house plants to prevent drying up in central heating
- Treat fences and trellis with wood preservative if needed
- Warm ground for sowing with polythene or cloches
- Buy seeds
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- Feed all plants with a general slow-release fertiliser
- Mulch borders while the ground is damp and weed free
- Renovate lawns - sow grass, seed on bare patches, repair and level hollows, bumps and broken edges
- Greenhouse vegetables can be sown
- Prune winter-flowering jasmine once it has finished flowering
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- Start mowing lawns regularly
- Plant up hanging baskets and containers, but keep frost-free
- Support herbaceous perennials with stakes
- Tender vegetables like marrow and runner beans can be sown in pots and placed under cover
- Water lilies in ponds can be lifted and divided
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- Spray roses to prevent blackspot
- Plant herbs
- Feed fish daily, tackle blanket weed and make sure the pond is well planted
- Water new plants, especially during dry spells
- Feed strawberries with liquid tomato fertiliser
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- Fix a water butt to collect soft water for your plants
- Deadhead flowers frequently to encourage longer show
- Prune shrubs that have finished flowering
- Feed container plants
- Weed regularly
- Tender flowers and vegetables can now be planted outside
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- Water daily, especially hanging baskets and containers
- Tie-in fast growing climbers
- Top up the pond regularly
- Keep deadheading flowers
- Trim conifer hedges
- Cut lavender for drying
- Sow tender salads like lettuce, for quick cropping
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- Keep fountain/pump running to oxygenate the water for the fish, and check water level
- Prune rambler roses when they finish flowering
- Keep greenhouse well ventilated
- Pinch out growing tips of tomatoes and fuchsia
- Plant autumn flowering bulbs
- Keep watering
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Hardy annuals can be sown in trays for early next spring
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Rake up fallen leaves and collect in bags to make leaf mould
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Prune rambling roses
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Harvest fruit as it ripens
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Lawns mown less frequently now
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Plant daffodil and crocus bulbs in containers
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Continue to sweep up fallen leaves for compost
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Lift bulbs and tubers that need overwintering indoors
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Clear away the summer bedding plants
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Clean and tidy up the greenhouse thoroughly
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Clean and tidy up the greenhouse thoroughly
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Move container shrubs like bay trees, into conservatories
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Check lawns for water-logged areas and make a note to improve drainage next spring
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Plant winter-flowering pansies
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Clean and disinfect pots and trays ready for next spring
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Protect newly planted and delicate shrubs
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Hard prune deciduous hedges which have been overgrown
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Tidy up the perennial borders by cutting back the dead stems
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Check that tree stakes are secure to stop chafing of trunks
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Firm down soil around newly planted shrubs lifted by frost
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Dig over soil in the vegetable plot if weather permits
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Use windbreak netting on new conifers in exposed conditions
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Test water pumps in ponds fortnightly to stop seizing up
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Feed the birds regularly
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