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Prune spring-flowering shrubs
Don't let your physocarpus or other spring-flowering shrubs become overgrown, woody and thin on flowers. Pruning out the stems that have bloomed this spring will keep your plants at a manageable size and will guarantee an explosion of flowers the next year.
Takes just: 50 minutes
Flowers
- Collect and sow seed from foxgloves
- Take cuttings from pinks (Dianthus)
- Prune philadelphus after flowering
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Fruit and veg
- Water beans and pick them regularly
- Transplant brassica seedlings to their final positions
- Lift early potatoes and shallots as they mature
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Greenhouse
- Take cuttings of zonal and regal pelargoniums
- Train the main stem of cucumber plants up a wire
- Water plants in pots and growing bags
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Around the garden
- Compost your kitchen and garden waste
- Top up water levels in garden ponds if they are getting low
- Push canes in around tall plants like gladioli and lilies
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