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Around the garden checklist

Around the garden checklist

14 - 20 April 2008

Painting fence with preservative

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...
  • Treat timber fences, trellis and posts with preservative
  • Install water butts to all downpipes on your house, shed or greenhouse, to collect rainwater
  • Apply moss killer to lawns
  • Fork compost into any unused border area, ready for summer bedding
  • Cut away unwanted suckers growing around the base of trees and shrubs
  • Lift large waterlilies from ponds, divide and replant them
  • Clean pond pumps and filters, and make sure they are working properly
  • Hand weed alpine and rock gardens

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