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Week
1
General
Watered greenhouses and conservatory.
Filled
ponds.
When
weather allows, tidying through borders.
Allotment
Repaired cloche in readiness for use on hot box.
Week
2
General
Mulching already weeded borders.
Cleaning pebbles
in water features using soapy water and a scrubbing brush.
Engraving
plant labels during bad weather.
Allotment
Single digging vacant areas.
Greenhouse
Cleaned polythene on benching and replaced capillary matting.
Week 3
General
Shredding material cut off herbaceous plants during autumn.
Pressure washing
some paved areas.
Working through borders forking over, weeding and mulching. Allotment
Harvested last of the BRUSSELS SPROUTS, removed the plants and dug over the
area.
Greenhouse
Sown CAULIFLOWER 'Mayflower' and 'Candid Charm'; RUDBECKIA
'Indian Summer', 'Prairie Sun' and 'Goldilocks' and TOMATO 'British
Breakfast', 'Golden Sunrise', 'Floridity', 'Alicante', 'Shirley'
and 'Moneymaker' into seed trays.
Sown PEA 'Douce Provence' into gutter.
Sown GARLIC 'Solent White' into 7cm (3") pots.
Planted POTATO 'Lady Christl' into a large container.
Made SWEET PEA tubes from old newspaper.
Week
4
General
Watered in greenhouses and conservatory.
Sprayed conservatory
and greenhouses with soft soap as some pests noticed.
Shredding.
Winter pruning of apples and pears.
Filling up ponds and water features.
Allotment
Filled hot box with fresh manure, capped it with 10cm of our own garden compost
and placed the cloche on top.
Planted SHALLOTS.
Removed three trained APPLE trees that were beyond saving.
Greenhouse
Sown
BROAD BEAN 'Crimson Flowered' and 'Express'; TOMATO 'Fantasio' and
'Ailsa Craig'; PEPPER 'Jumbo', 'Mohave', 'Gypsy', 'De Cayenne', 'Joe's
Long', 'Jalapeno', Twilight' and 'Sweet Chocolate'; LETTUCE 'Lollo
Rosso'; AUBERGINE 'Calliope' and 'Black Beauty' and ONION 'Lancastrian',
'Ailsa Craig', 'White Lisbon' and 'Mamoth Improved'.
Planted
POTATO 'Salad Blue', 'Foremost' and 'Rocket' into containers.
Moved
GARLIC, ENDIVE, BEETROT, BROAD BEANS, PEAS and LETTUCE out of heated
greenhouse and into tunnel to harden off.
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