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Around the garden checklist

Around the garden checklist

7 - 13 July 2008

Edging the lawn

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...
  • Keep lawn edges trimmed by cutting with a half-moon edging tool
  • Look out for cabbage white butterfly eggs and rub them off with your fingers
  • Remove blanket weed from ponds
  • Feed hanging baskets and patio pots every week
  • Prune fast-growing hedges like privet
  • Keep mowing the lawn regularly
  • Deadhead border plants, unless you want to collect their seeds
  • Pick everlasting flowers or herbs for drying
  • Order flower bulbs for autumn planting including colchicum, daffodils and other spring bulbs
  • Look out for developing weed infestations and control immediately

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