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This Month
The worst of the cold weather should be behind us and the warmer weather will make your plants grow.
Most of your planting may have finished, now it is all about maintaining your display, removing dead flowers as they appear helps new buds and flowers develop.
Remember to take some time to sit and enjoy your garden.
Weeds will appear, try to tackle them when they are small they are easier to pull out.
keep checking you planters and recently planted plants to see if they are dry and water if necessary.
What to buy
There are still plenty of summer plants to buy, you still have time to make a fabulous display
Plug plants
Baby bedding plants start to appear and can be very tempting. Once very popular they can be a useful alternative to buying a packet of…
Summer bedding plants
Summer bedding is the planting of short-lived but fast-growing plants to provide masses of colourful flowers or foliage through the summer. The plants are normally…
Summer patio pots and hanging baskets
The hardest thing about summer planters is deciding when to plant them, the spectre of frost is always there. If you have planters that can…
Tender vegetables
Tomatoes, peppers, chilli, cucumbers all need to be grown in a greenhouse, conservatory or plastic grow house. You can buy them now for planting later….
June is also a good time to buy hardy plants. There are lots of plants in flower and they can add height and structure to your garden.
Dahlia
Brightly coloured long-lasting flowers you can have small, medium and tall types they are very versatile. They prefer the sun and will need watering in…
Pansy
So popular you can buy them almost all year round. Most pansies are grown from seed but they can be rooted from cuttings. pansy yellow…
Picking a Strawberry variety
Remember when Strawberries were Sweet, juicy and full of aroma. To have perfectly ripe strawberries you need to grow your own or visit a pick…
Sweetpea
Sweetpeas Not traditional thought of as a bedding plant, they are sold in large quantities so I have included them, they can be used to…
On the Nursery this month
On the nursery in June
Still, a busy month, selling our summer bedding, this creates some gaps on the benches allowing us to space the last batch of potting.
Spacing plants improve their shape and stop them from stretching.
New arrivals
We start to pot our autumn foliage plants, we use them to make up planters and hanging baskets.
We also pot our Autumn chrysanths or garden mums they are easy to grow, quickly growing into a ball shape with masses of mini flowers.
Pest & disease
Time to watch out for caterpillars if you can catch them now you can prevent a massive outbreak later. Most gardeners think of cabbage white butterflies attacking you cabbages but there is also a wide range of moths that attack garden plants. You will need to think about stopping or slowing them down. You can use chemicals but there are physical barriers like fleece or mesh, we use biological pest controls but with limited success, so we may use some chemicals (there are some chemicals that only kill caterpillars) if the pests take over.
Pests are increasing in numbers, we monitor them with sticky traps. We introduce a steady supply of predators to keep on top of them.
Here we can see them working, some turn the mummified aphids silvery but this one called praon sets up shop under the aphid.
Time for some weeding
Now is a good time to tackle some weeds, you need to stop them from spreading, the secret is to stop them from flowering. During June we often find weeds germinating on the benches and plant pots, they blow in from outside. The answer is to get outside and stop them from flowering with weedkillers, mowing or strimming.
Weeds can act as hosts for pests and diseases, they can spread onto your plants.
Ready to sell
Lots of stock in full flower
Fabulous hanging baskets.
Begonia nonstops
Fuchsia
Exotic looking canna but easy to grow
Dwarf sunflowers, iconic flowers but very easy to grow
We grow a range of patio vegetables they make brilliant gardening projects for kids.
Growing pea shoots
How to start growing pea shoots You can grow pea shoots, this is a very easy method. Buy some peas…
Easy Strawberries
Remember when Strawberries were Sweet, juicy and full of aroma. They are not quite the same nowadays, the supermarket grower…
Growing Sweetpeas
How to start growing sweetpeas This is sweetpeas for beginners, a quick search online will bring up a wide range of…
Growing Tomatoes
How to start growing tomatoes This is tomatoes for beginners, a quick search online will bring up a wide range of…
Growing Sunflowers
How to start growing sunflowers This is sunflowers for beginners, a quick search online will bring up a wide range…
Growing Peas
How to start growing Peas This is Peas for beginners, a quick search online will bring up a wide range…
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