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GARDEN CALENDAR

August

Hanging Baskets & Containers:

• Continue to water and feed regularly. 
• Don't forget to dead head to encourage the production of new flowers.

Flower Borders:

• Dead head faded flowers of perennials and annuals, if they are not required for collecting seed.
• Trim Lavender bushes once they have finished flowering. Do not cut down into the wood.
• Take cuttings of tender perennials such as Pelargoniums, Fuchsias and Salvias.
• Stop feeding Roses so as to discourage soft growth.
• Prune rambling and shrub Roses cutting only the old stem that flowered this year.

Vegetable Patch:

• Sow Lettuce, spring Cabbage and winter Spinach.
• Pinch out the tips of Runner Beans.
• Pick Courgettes regularly.
• Take cuttings of woody herbs, e.g. Lavender, Rosemary and Sage.

Fruit Garden:

• Cut down Raspberry canes that have fruited and support new canes.
• Plant Strawberry runners which have rooted.
• Continue to feed Tomato plants.