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What to do now... weekly checklists

Fuchsia flowers

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

Job of the week

Pinch out fuchsias

Ensure bushy growth and masses of flower, by pinching out the tips of fuchsia regularly. This encourages side shoots and strengthens the growth to support the weight of summer flowers. Pinch out three or four times from spring to early summer for best results.

Takes just: 5 minutes per plant

Flowers

Planting perennial wallflowers
  • Plant out perennials in groups of three, five or seven
  • Sprinkle fertiliser around clumps of tulips
  • Sow hardy annual flowers directly into beds
  • See all flowers jobs

Fruit and veg

Sowing sweetcorn seed
  • Feed fruit trees and bushes
  • Order vegetable plug plants from mail-order suppliers
  • Plant out onion sets grown in pots under glass
  • See all fruit & veg jobs

Greenhouse

Plug plants
  • Buy plug plants and young bedding to grow on
  • Thin out heavy fruit sets on peaches and nectarines
  • Sow annual climbers
  • See all greenhouse jobs

Around the garden

Blitzing patio with pressure washer
  • Freshen up the garden by blitzing patios and terraces with a pressure washer
  • Sow new lawns
  • Snip plain green shoots off variegated shrubs
  • See all around the garden jobs

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