Greenhouse job checklist - week 35

20 - 26 August 2012

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Take cuttings from tender perennials and bedding plants, such as verbena
Sow a few pots of hardy annuals to provide early spring blooms
Shade delicate plants to avoid sun scorch on hot days
Deal with vine weevil by watering pots with a solution of biological control nematodes
Damp down the floor on hot days to increase humidity
Harvest cucumbers regularly to promote further flower development
Pot up rooted cuttings into individual pots
Plant pots of freesias and lachenalia
Stop watering begonias and gloxinias so they die down after flowering
Start watering dormant cyclamen to bring them back into growth after their summer rest