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Around the garden checklist

Around the garden checklist

24 - 30 March 2008

Standing plants in cold frame

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...
  • Move plants from greenhouse to cold frame, to acclimatise to cooler temperatures before planting out
  • Dig out new ponds and water features
  • Clean and sharpen secateurs and garden knives
  • Buy summer-flowering bulbs now, while the best choice of varieties and colours are available
  • Treat emerging shoots of perennial weeds like ground elder with glyphosate-based weedkiller
  • Repot succulents that have overgrown their containers

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