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Greenhouse job checklist - week 43
21 - 27 October 2013
It's time to...
Sow sweet peas
and pinch out the growing tips of seedlings for bushier plants
Continue harvesting chillies, peppers and other crops
Reduce watering potted tuberous begonias to allow the top growth to die down
Bring pots of tender bulbs like agapanthus and eucomis into the greenhouse for the winter
Let achimene, gloxinia and gloriosa die down in their pots
Keep potted azaleas constantly moist using rainwater
Plant bowls with hyacinths
and
spring bulbs
Check greenhouse heaters are in working order and that you have fuel in stock
Pot up roots of lily-of-the-valley to provide fragrant winter flowers
Sow hardy annuals, like calendulas, in pots for early flowers
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