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Week 1

General
Moved all tender perennials from heated greenhouse onto outside bed to harden off before planting.

Regularly watering and dead heading potted plants inside and out and feeding with high potash seaweed feed.

Put out hanging baskets.

Allotment
Planted LETTUCE 'Dickson', 'Salad Bowl' and Rosetta' and CABBAGE 'Red Jewel' and 'Golden Acre Primo'.

Thinned TURNIP.

Ornamental Kitchen Garden
Planted BRUSSELS SPROUT 'Red Delicious'; LETTUCE 'Blush' and CABBAGE 'Red Jewel'.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Removed frames covered with protective netting from CABBAGE 'Red Jewel' and 'Golden Acre Primo'.

Planted COURGETTE 'Orelia' at the end of the POTATO bed.

Planted LETTUCE 'Granada'.

Directly sown RADISH 'Cherry Belle'.

Parterre
Planted a GLOBE ARTICHOKE 'Green Globe' to replace one that died.

Planted CABBAGE 'Golden Acre Primo', 'Red Jewel' and 'Greyhound'.

Thinned LETTUCE 'Little Gem'.

Planted RUNNER BEANS each side of apple arch and up each of the 4 rose obelisks.

Greenhouse
Pricked out BROCOLLI 'White Sprouting' and 'Rudolph'; BORECOLE 'Dwarf Green Courled'; 'FENNEL 'Zefa Fino'; DILL; CILANTRO 'Elless'; LETTUCE 'Challenge', 'Sentry' and Mixed' and NASTURTIUM 'Tip Top Scarlet' and 'Alaska' into 8cm (3") pots.

Potted on last of the TOMATOES, MELONS and CUCUMBERS into 10 litre pots.

Sown LETTUCE 'Lollo Rosso', All the Year Round' and 'Fristina' into trays.

Placed MELONS and CUCUMBERS into their growing positions in the greenhouse.

Potted on AUBERGINE and PEPPER into 3 litre pots.

Pricked out SWEET WILLIAMS into 8cm (3") pots.

Week 2

General
Dividing and replanting flag IRIS in various parts of the gardens.

Tied in and pinched out shoots on all wall and fence trained plums and cherries.

lso thinned out fruit.

Cut back DAFFODIL leaves now they have turned brown.

Tied in all climbers that have started to grow away from their supports.

Allotment
Planted BRUSSELS SPROUT 'Peer Gynt', 'Red Delicious' and 'Montgomery'.

Directly sown RADISH 'Cherry Belle', 'Scarlet Globe' and 'French Breakfast'.

Weeding through all areas.

Edging grass pathways.

Ornamental Kitchen Garden
Planted GARLIC 'Solent White'.

Planted RUNNER BEAN 'Celebration' to climb up fence.

Parterre
Directly sown BEETROOT 'Boltardy', RADISH 'Frech Breakfast' and CARROT 'Early Nantes' and 'Amsterdam Forcing'.

Week 3

General
Removed flowering stems from perennials that have finished flowering such as IRIS sibirica, EUPHORBIA robbiae, HELLEBORUS and PAPAVER.

Trimming BUXUS hedging in various gardens using a pair of sheep shears.

Spraying infestations of aphids with soft soap solution every third day until all signs of the pest have gone. Most susceptible have been the ROSES, LUPINS and conservatory/greenhouse plants.

Planted out tender perennials - DAHLIAS, CANNAS, OSTEOSPERMUMS, PELARGONIUMS, ARGYRANTHEMUMS and FUCHSIAS.

Parterre
Planted TOMATOES in a large bed on one side of the apple arch and LETTUCE 'Sangria' in a similar bed on the other side.

Planted MARIGOLDS around some beds as companion plants.

Greenhouse
Potted LETTUCE 'All the Year Round', 'Fristina' and 'Lollo Rossa' and CELERIAC 'Monarch' into 8cm (3") pots.

Watering all plants with water taken from the water barrel that has a netted bag of COMFREY hanging in it (high in nitrogen).

Week 4

General
Pruned early flowering shrubs if they have finished flowering, such as WEIGELA, PHILADELPHUS, CYTISUS, CHOISYA and SYRINGA.

Turned compost heaps dotted around gardens.

Dug out patio and pathway areas in The Garden for the Less Mobile in readiness for the hardcore base.

Pruning WISTERIA, DEUTZIA, PHILADELPHUS, WEIGELA and rambling and climbing ROSES.

Removed suckers from ROSES, PRUNUS and SORBUS.

Mowing, strimming and lawn edging.

Allotment
Sown CARROT 'Ideal' and Amini'.

Tied in any RAPBERRY canes that had come loose.

Digging over ground vacated by 1st early POTATOES grown under polythene now they have all been lifted.

Planted LEEK 'Bulgarian Giant' at the bottom of a trench which will be filled in as the LEEKS develop.

Hoeing and weeding all areas.

Dead heading MARIGOLDS as necessary.

Picking over all fruit on a regular basis - REASPBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES, BLACKCURRANTS, REDCURRANTS, LOGANBERRIES and GOOSEBERRIES.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Planted CLIMBING FRENCH BEAN 'Cobra' onto tripod.

Removed protective chicken wire from around LETTUCE and ONIONS.

Ornamental Kitchen Garden
Sown RADISH 'Scarlet Globe'.

Planted TOMATO 'Ailsa Craig'.

Greenhouse
Potted on SWEET WILLIAM into 2 litre pots.

Sown LETTUCE 'Valdor', 'Granada' and 'Blush' and LEEK 'Autumn Mammoth 2 - Snowstar', 'Musselburgh', 'Bulgarian Giant', 'Vrizo', 'King Richard', 'Autumn Giant 3 - Albana', Lyon-Prizetaker' and 'Carlton' into trays.

Potted PEPPER ands AUBERGINE into final 5 litre pots and placed them in their growing position.

Side shooting TOMATOES.

Regularly checking for new male and female flowers on MELONS and fertilising female flowers when necessary.

Potted CAPE GOOSEBERRY into 8cm (3") pots.

Damping down floors on hotter days.

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