Gardening Jobs to do

With the first flush of summer over and autumn yet to make itself known, the garden can often look exhausted. So use your resources and with these guidelines, bring the garden and vegetable patch back to life.

Trimming and Cuttings

•    Take cuttings from any shrubby herbs
•    When your lavender has finished flowering cut it back
•    Take cuttings from any tender perennials, fuchsias, argyranthemums, salvias, pelargoums and vebrenas

Roses

•    Remove rose suckers
•    Take cuttings from healthy stems
•    Stop feeding and tie back any new shots (climbing roses)
•    Remove any faded flowers

Other gardening jobs

•    Prune wisteria and laurel hedges
•    Prepare for the late summer rush by diligently watering and de-heading
•    Damp down the paths of glasshouses
•    Move pot plants to the shade
•    Order bulbs

Allotment

•    Sow lettuce, spring onion, radish (including winter varieties), spring cabbage, carrots, kohl rabi and turnips.
•    Harvest peas, potatoes, radish, spinach, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, celery and salad leaves.
•    Order and sow autumn onions
•    If you’re going on holiday, pick everything in sight before you leave
•    Water your beans well to help assist in pollination

It looks to be a busy month,

Notcutts