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Create something new? Grow-How Tips for September

21 September 2019September 21, 2019the3growbags5 Comments

It’s a little sad when you can’t help but notice there isn’t enough evening light to finish the list of gardening tasks you’d planned,isn’t it! But here are a few to get started on anyhow, like constructing new planting areas, cutting out dead wood in shrubs and trees, and making plans for next year……. MAKING A NEW BED September can be a fabulous time to create a new planting area in your garden. In our region, we have had another dry summer leaving the clay soil dense and hard, but now we’ve had a few wetter autumn days, we...

Grow-How Tips for July

13 July 2019July 13, 2019the3growbagsLeave a comment

Once July really kicks in, the goodies keep coming if you’ve done all your earlier spadework – early crops to pick, fruit ripening and flowers everywhere! But no time to rest on your laurels – let’s have a go at pruning the plum trees, taking semi-ripe cuttings and harvesting courgettes, amongst other jobs ……. PRUNING THE PLUM TREES There’s a nasty disease that plum trees are prone to, called Silver Leaf. If you see a silvery sheen on any leaves or a purple-white fungus on the branches, you must remove those branches immediately before the whole tree succumbs. The...