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Filling length of guttering with compost

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Job of the week

Sow quick salads in guttering

Keep a regular supply of salad leaves by sowing seeds in lengths of plastic guttering, cut to the length of your veg beds, and filled with good compost. When the seeds germinate, you can grow them on for 2-4 weeks and then simply slide the plants into their growing positions as soon as space becomes available.

Takes just: 20 minutes

Flowers

Tying in climbing rose
  • Tie shoots of honeysuckle and climbing roses to supports
  • Pinch out the shoot tips of dahlias
  • Deadhead lupins
  • See all flowers jobs

Fruit and veg

Making CD birdscarers
  • Hang old CDs among crops and from fruit trees
  • Water beans and sweet peas
  • Give extra water to ripening soft fruits
  • See all fruit & veg jobs

Greenhouse

Damping down greenhouse
  • Damp down the floor every morning and open vents
  • Water tomatoes regularly to prevent fruits splitting
  • Sow Primula malacoides and P. obconica
  • See all greenhouse jobs

Around the garden

Picking off dead rhododendron flowers
  • Pick dead flower-heads off rhododendrons and azaleas
  • Feed lawns with a liquid or granular lawn fertiliser
  • Scoop floating weed out of garden ponds with a net
  • See all around the garden jobs

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