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What to do now... weekly checklists

Mowing the lawn

Select a week to find out what jobs to do in your garden

Job of the week

Mow the lawn

Mow your lawn now and you'll enjoy a greener, denser and harder-wearing patch throughout the summer. Whether you want a bowling-green lawn or just a bit of grass for the kids to play on, regular mowing will improve the appearance of your lawn and help keep it looking its best.

Takes just: 30 minutes

Flowers

Sprinkling fertiliser round roses
  • Sprinkle granular fertiliser round roses
  • Sow sweet peas into deep pots
  • Move evergreen shrubs and conifers to new sites
  • See all flowers jobs

Fruit and veg

Sowing peas into compost
  • Sow peas in lengths of guttering under cover
  • Plant out onion sets in rows
  • Carefully dig away grass or plants growing close to fruit trees
  • See all fruit & veg jobs

Greenhouse

Planting canna lily
  • Plant canna lilies in pots
  • Sow strawberry seeds, including alpine varieties
  • Visit garden centres to buy young bedding plants
  • See all greenhouse jobs

Around the garden

Mulching round alpines with gravel
  • Replenish gravel and grit mulches around alpine plants
  • Put slug barrier products around the tender new shoots
  • Dig plenty of compost into heavy clay soils
  • See all around the garden jobs

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