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Greenhouse checklist

Greenhouse checklist

10 - 16 March 2008

Cucumber crop

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...
  • Sow cucumbers, tomatoes, aubergines and peppers to raise summer crops
  • Water compost with a suitable pesticide where vine weevils have been discovered
  • Sow summer bedding plants, such as petunias, geranium, verbena and busy Lizzie
  • Take cuttings from chrysanthemums
  • Pick faded or yellowing leaves from plants to prevent grey mould infections
  • Raise crops in modular trays to transplant into the garden later, such as celery, celeriac, lettuce, parsley and other herbs

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