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satisfying week.Today I sorted out the autumn raspberries: pruning, clearing and feeding the bed. Autumn-fruiting raspberries produce fruit on new canes, so they should be cut to the ground in February to encourage them to produce this season's canes

). Prepare the soil well with some rich compost and, like dahlias feed once a week with a general purpose feed.Nigella damascena is another attractive and easy plant to grow. The seeds can be tossed in the ground and will happily grow without much attention

frosts. Prune them in summer (fruit develops on new wood) and give them a liquid seaweed feed once a year and they will thank you for it.Since morello cherry trees are self-fertile, you will only need one tree to get any fruit.If only I had a bigger

desirable residence.The queen starts off by chewing up bits of wood to form a small, round paper nest. In it, she initially lays a small number of eggs, which become grubs and then wasp workers that help to feed more grubs the queen produces over the summer

of September (these are especially chilled seed potatoes for autumn planting). When growing potatoes in containers it's a good idea to add some granular organic feed at planting time, since most composts only contain enough nutrients for around a month. When