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Greenhouse checklist

Greenhouse checklist

3 - 9 March 2008

Strawberry in hanging basket

Use this page as a checklist for this week's most important tasks.

It's printer friendly so you could pin it up in your garden shed.

It's time to...

It's time to...
  • Plant strawberry runners in hanging baskets, which you can grow in the greenhouse to produce an early summer crop
  • Order seedlings and bedding plants from mail-order suppliers
  • Sow dwarf French beans in a large pot for an early crop in June
  • Plant lily bulbs in pots either to use in the border or to add elegance to a patio display
  • Repot established agapanthus into slightly larger containers using a loam-based compost
  • Plant begonia and gloxinia tubers in pots
  • Take cuttings from dahlias planted last month to raise new plants

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