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Greenhouse checklist

Greenhouse checklist

5 - 11 May 2008

Fitting automatic vent to greenhouse

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...
  • Fit automatic openers to greenhouse vents to encourage good air circulation
  • Plant tomatoes in growing bags or large pots, training them on to canes or wires for support
  • Bring pots of strawberries into the greenhouse to produce early flowers and fruit
  • Sow cyclamen and schizanthus for indoor flowers
  • Buy scented-leaf pelargoniums, such as 'Chocolate Peppermint' and 'Lady Plymouth'
  • Plant pots with heat-treated freesia corms to produce fragrant flowers this summer
  • Watch out for pests, checking under leaves and on shoot tips for signs of whitefly or red spider mite. Treat immediately, or introduce biological pest controls

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