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Around the garden checklist

Around the garden checklist

17 - 23 March 2008

Mulching round alpines with gravel

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...
  • Replenish gravel and grit mulches around alpine plants
  • Put slug barrier products around the tender new shoots of hostas and perennials
  • Dig plenty of compost into heavy clay soils
  • Cut down marginal plants around ponds, and mulch with compost or bark
  • Once house bulb displays have finished flowering, plant them outside and water in well with a liquid feed
  • Mow paths through areas of long grass and meadows to avoid walking on bulbs and wildflowers

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