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Check watering requirements
daily. In hot, dry weather plants in containers may
need watering more than once a day. |
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Even if it does rain many containers
in sheltered positions, windowboxes and hanging baskets
in particular, may not receive sufficient water to
keep them flourishing. If there is a drought, concentrate
on providing water for trees and shrubs planted this
year. There are usually expensive pants to buy and
if they dry out before rooting into the surrounding
soil they may die. |
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Harvest fruit and vegetables when
they are ripe. Don't forget to harvest culinary herbs
as well as freeze or dry for winter use. |
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Maintain a regular programme of weeding
and checking for pests and diseases. |
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Feed those plants that require it. |
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Deadhead regularly to encourage more
flowers unless you want seeds to form. If you are
saving seed from your own plants, check regularly
to make sure that you harvest when the seeds are ripe
but before they begin to shed. |
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Disbud according to the requirements
of the plants you are growing. |
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Chrysanthemums and dahlias may need
attention this month. |
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Pinch out the growing tips of wallflowers.
The sooner you do this, the bushier the plants will
be by the time they have to be moved to their flowering
positions. |
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Remove the growing tips from greenhouse
tomatoes by the middle of the month, to encourage
the fruit to develop more rapidly. |
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Take the last crop of cuttings this
year from pinks. |
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Pinch out the growing tips of fuchsias
to increase the number of shoots available for cuttings. |
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Plant strawberries as soon as possible
so the plants become well established before next
year. |
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Sow Japanese onions to overwinter
Timing is critical for this crop. |
