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What to do now... weekly checklists

Removing flower from bedding plant

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Job of the week

Deadhead flowers

All plants will benefit from having the dying flowers removed as soon as they begin to fade. It stops them putting energy into forming seed and encourages annuals to produce more flowers throughout the summer.

Takes just: 10 minutes a day

Flowers

Cutting back wisteria
  • Summer prune wisteria
  • Water hydrangea bushes
  • Take clematis cuttings or layer new shoots
  • See all flowers jobs

Fruit and veg

Shortening sideshoots of fruit tree
  • Shorten sideshoots growing from the framework of espalier
  • Pick fresh herbs for drying
  • Pick gooseberries, currants, strawberries and other fruits
  • See all fruit & veg jobs

Greenhouse

Pruning cucumber sideshoots
  • Train cucumbers and prune back sideshoots
  • Pick off flowers on coleus to maintain their colourful leaves
  • Pinch out tomato sideshoots
  • See all greenhouse jobs

Around the garden

Trimming a hedge
  • Trim hedges to keep them neat, then shred and compost the clippings
  • Top up compost or bark mulches around heathers
  • Hoe and hand weed borders
  • See all around the garden jobs

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