June - garden task checklist
- Water & deadhead plants regularly
- Deadhead flowering plants to promote new blooms
- Cut back herbaceous plants after flowering to encourage a second burst of foliage & flowers
- Remove perennial weeds
- Mow the lawn regularly - set the mower blades higher during hot, dry spells
- Feed the grass with a liquid feed if it needs a quick green-up
- Water a new lawn during long dry spells - a good soaking once a week is better than a light sprinkling every day. Established lawns can look after themselves
- Water & feed baskets & containers regularly
- Prepare the soil for a new lawn or border
- Continue to clip privet & other fast growing hedges
- Ponds - continue removing blanket weed & duckweed & thinning excess oxygenators
On Tuesday last I bought a fantstic gardening book Learn to Garden which is published by the The Royal Horticultural Society. Why another gardening book? As I already have a complete library of these books I thought one more wont do any harm. Education in any discipline can only advance the reader's knowledge about his or her chosen subject. This practical gardening book is the result of the collective contribution of the following gardeners: Philip Clayton, Andi Clevely, Isabelle van Groeningen, Lia Leendertz, Alan Toogood, Daphne Vince Prue, & Matthew Wilson.
I am recommending this gardening manual because it teaches you how to dig & sow; plant & prune; grow & nurture & create your own beautiful garden. If you have 27.90 Euro to spare this is perhaps one of the best gardening books you could buy.
Read the information about this book & others at www.dk.com/rhs
As usual the Royal Horticultural Society's website is abounding with useful info about plants & gardening books: http://www.rhs.org.uk/
posted by Thomas @ 2:49 pm
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