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Around the garden checklist

Around the garden checklist

11 - 17 June 2007

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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...
  • Gradually lower the cutting height of your mower as grass growth increases
  • Spray roses showing signs of diseases such as blackspot, rust or powdery mildew
  • Apply a combined weed, feed and mosskiller to your lawn if you think it needs it
  • Top up water levels in pools and remove water weeds with a net
  • Hoe borders on hot sunny days to remove developing weed seedlings
  • Continue watering anything newly planted until it has established
  • Cut verges along the roadside to prevent plants obscuring the view of motorists
  • Use a circuit breaker (RCD) when using any electric power tools
  • Treat problem weeds emerging in borders with herbicide
  • Lightly trim new growth on box hedging

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