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, and carry several leaves, pinch out the tip. This encourage two or three side shoots to develop lower down the stems, and each of these can be trained up to carry flowers.However, if it's really large stems of sweet peas for cut flowers that you're after

I've planted everywhere. I simply let it spring up among other plants, adding another tier of seasonal colour. Stems can be gently plucked from the soil to use as cut flowers, but I leave mine in place to enhance the display. Without tightly packed

Chrysanthemum 'Bright Eyes', boasting golden discs with a black centre, perfect for cut flowers. I love cosmos, and Johnsons's new 'Peppermint Rock' produces white flowers with pink picotee edges on tall stems. Glorious.That beautiful striped squash in Dobies

an occasional watering to keep them going.My gladioli produced lots of cut flowers during August, and I lifted their fat corms at the weekend. They should store well, nestled cosily in a box of dry, insulating vermiculite to keep them frost free. Hopefully they

by professional growers to raise new bulbs, but rarely by amateurs. By simply cutting bulbs into tiny sections with two scales attached to a piece of basal plate, a single bulb can yield perhaps a dozen or more new bulbs in just a few years.Carol moved on to lay a

Queen Mother. Olga, the new head gardener, is just coming to terms with such an exposed garden, designed in part to provide cut flowers and produce for the house. Tall walls and dividing hedges are essential to create shelter, and new planting projects

again, hoping 'Emir' lives up to its catalogue description (though to be on the safe side I'm keeping two melon plants a little snugger in my greenhouse). So far, so good, and flowers are developing well. Now all I need is to cross-pollinate them

of the plants produced flower spikes, and these were immediately cut away at their base to stop them weakening the clumps.I did not cover these new plants with forcing jars, and won't pick any stems in this first full year. However, next spring I'll taste a few

grow to about 7-10cm long before cutting off and rooting in a glass of water. Pot them up, and you've got smashing young plants that will start flowering and fruiting in just a few weeks.And when it comes to fertilisers, many people are totally confused