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Week 1

General
Split clumps of PRIMULAS and replanted smaller clumps.

Pruned PLUMS and CHERRIES.

Keeping newly planted areas well water in the dry weather.

Lawn edging, mowing and strimming.

Allotment
Planted out RUNNER BEAN 'Yard Long' and 'Painted Lady onto wigwams.

Parterre
Planted out SWEETCORN 'mini Pop' and LEEK 'Mammoth.

Greenhouse
Potted on all MELONS into 7.5 litre pots and placed them into their final growing positions.

Placed out PEPPERS and AUBERGINES into their final growing positions.

Potted TOMATO 'Maltese Plum' and CAPE GOOSEBERRY into their final 10 litre pots.

Week 2

General
Any tall herbaceous plants requiring support have been staked.
Mowing, edging and strimming.

Allotment
Hoed between rows.

Dug a trench for the LEEK 'Mammoth' and then planted at the bottom.

Harvested all new POTATOES grown under polythene as ground was required for next crop.

Tied in and side shooted SWEET PEAS.

Watering when required.

Cut out unwanted RASPBERRY canes.

Parterre
Planted PICKLING GHERKIN 'Venlo', COURGETTE 'Eight Ball' and SWEETCORN 'Applause'.

Gentleman's Cottage Garden
Planted SWEETCORN 'Sundance'.

Ornamental Kitchen Garden
Planted SWEETCORN 'Sundance'.

Greenhouse
Fed CUCUMBERS and TOMATOES with high potash seaweed feed.

Potted micropropagated plants of POTATO 'Salad Blue'.

Pricked out all winter CAULIFLOWERS, CURLY Kale and BROCCOLI into modules.

Made a framework out of canes to tie the MELONS to as they grow.

Week 3

General
Clipped all BUXUS hedging.

Pruned RHODODENDRONS, PHILADELPHUS, WEIGELA, KOLKWITZIA, STONE FRUITS, SYRINGA, and all other spring flowering shrubs in need of a tidy up.

Planted out DAHLIA, CHRYSANTHEMUM, FUCHSIA, ARGYRANTHEMUM, CANNA and PELARGONIUMS.

Allotment
Tied in and side shooted SWEET PEAS.

General hoeing, weeding and watering.

Planted CELERY 'Loretta'.

Put chicken wire over FRENCH BEANS due to a rabbit problem.

Planted out BROCCOLI 'Rudolph'.

Greenhouse
Fed all CUCUMBERS, TOMATOES and AUBERGINES.

Sowed RUNNER BEAN 'Margoles' and 'Guliver' into deep modules.

Tied in all TOMATOEs and side shooted.

Potted up autumn and winter cabbages as a stop gap as there is nowhere to plant out as of yet.

Week 4

General
Reduced the height of out two large CHERRY trees in the orchard as we could no longer reach the fruit.

Planted LAVANDULA 'Hidcote in Gentleman's Cottage Garden as border edging in place of the BUXUS sempervirens that had to be removed due to box blight.
Staking and tying taller perennials as required.

Cutting back perennial that have finished flowering, unless seed is required.

Dead-heading.

Allotment
Planted various varieties of LEEKS.

Planted out CABBAGE 'Minicole' and 'Guardian' and SWISS CHARD 'Bright Lights'.

Thinned out SCORZONERA and SALSIFY.

Started to fill trench planted with LEEK 'Mammoth' to blanch the stems.

Sown into coldframe CARROT 'Ideal', SPRING ONION 'Guardsman', Onion 'Paris' (silverskin), LETTUCE 'Allsorts' and CHINESE CABBAGE 'One Kilo S.B.'.

Parterre
Directly sown RADISH 'Jolly and ROCKET.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Directly sown RADICCHIO 'Palla Rossa' and 'Red Devil', RADISH 'Mantanghong', LETTUCE 'Little Gem', ONION 'White Lisbon', RADISH 'Jolly' and ROCKET.

Greenhouse
Sown CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN 'Cherokee Trail of Tears' into 7cm (3") pots.

Sown LETTUCE 'Fristina' and 'Lollo Rosso' into modules.

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