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Saturday, July 12, 2008

July garden tasks

Apart from sitting in the sun, and weeding? There are loads, but it depends how committed you are to gardening:

Necessary tasks - Removing faded flowers on perennials like lupins and delphiniums because cutting them back early often encourages a second flush of flowers later in the season which allows you to look smug when the neighbours peer over the hedge. You need to cut the flower-spike just above a new shoot or leaf, and give each plant a generous liquid feed to encourage fresh growth.

Useful tasks - cutting the seedheads from aquilegia to prevent them from spreading. Well, not in our garden, because the few columbines we have are scrupulously looked after and I’d love them to spread: fat chance!

Tasks for the dedicated – it’s a great time to turn the compost heap. Oh … everybody seems to have stopped reading! Perhaps I’ll just go and sit in the sun ….

Labels: aquilegia, columbine, deadheading, garden compost, july garden tasks

The All Seasons Gardener at 2:40 PM

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