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Week 1

General
Repairing uneven and broken paving and loose brick paths.

Nets removed from all ponds.

Felling misshapen small trees and clearing brambles, etc from under trees by the entrance drive.

Allotment
Frost damage to POTATOES in hotbox when night time temperature reached minus 8 degrees centigrade.

Dug plot in readiness for NEW POTATOES.

Parterre
Planted out GARLIC 'Solent Wight'.

Gentlemans Cottage Garden
Directly sown RADISH 'Sparkler 3' and 'Scarlet Globe'; LETTUCE 'Little Gem' and 'Sangria'; CARROT 'Flyaway' and 'Ingot'; PARSNIP Lancer' and SPRING ONION 'Deep Purple'.

Greenhouse
Sown CUCUMBER 'Palermo' and 'Bella' and MELON 'Lunabel' and 'Sweetheart' into 7cm (3") pots.

Potted on PEPPER 'Hot Stuff', 'Mini Bell Red', 'Mini Bell Yellow', and 'Mini Bell Chocolate' into 7cm (3") pots.

Pricked out CABBAGE 'Hispi' and 'Golden Acre'; AUBERGINE 'Fabina' and 'Bonica' and PEPPER 'Gypsy' and 'Bolivian Rainbow' into modules.

Sown FRENCH MARIGOLDS 'Dwarf Single', 'Mischief Mixed', 'Silvia', 'Red Marietta', 'Naughty Marietta', 'Dainty Marietta', 'Double Safari Mixed', 'La Bamba' and 'Cats Eyes' and ASTER Standy Mixed', Duchess Mixed' and 'Pink Taffeta' into trays.

Week 2

General
Lawns mowed for the first time with the blades set very high.

Pruning ROSES< SPIRAEA, CARYOPTERIS, SAMBUCUS, LEYCESTERIA, BUDDLEJA davidii, WISTERIA and old herbaceous stems.

Repotted indoor and overwintering plants, if needed, and given them a good water.

ARGYRANTHEMUMS, PELARGONIUMS and FUCHSIAS have been cut back to produce bushy plants and any suitable material used as cuttings and propagated.

DAHLIAS being lightly watered to encourage them to produce growth to be used as cuttings so that we can increase our stock.

Allotment
Directly sown PARSNIP 'Tender and True'.

Planted POTATO 'Swift'.

Put up canes in readiness for the SWEET PEAS.

Greenhouse
Potted PEPPER 'Canape', 'Matador' and 'Redskin'; TOMATO 'The Amateur'; BASIL 'Neapolitan' and 'Lemon' and ASUBERGINE 'Moneymaker' into 7cm (3") pots.

Sown FRENCH MARIGOLD 'La Bamba' and LETTUCE 'Rusty', 'Unrivalled' and 'Granada' into modules.

Pricked out AFRICAN MARIGOLD 'Sunset Giants' and FRENCH MARIGOLD Cats Eyes' and 'Naughty Marietta' into modules.

Sown BROAD BEAN 'Feligreen' into deep modules.

Treated PARSLEY 'Plain Leaved', 'Curlina' and 'Moss Curled' with boiling water before sowing into modules.

Sown TOMATO 'Maltese Plum', 'Tornado', 'Red Cap', Gardener's Delight', 'Histon Early', 'Histon Cropper' and RUDBECKIA 'Bravado' and Prairie Sun' into trays.

Week 3

General
Standing stones delivered for Japanese garden.

Painting fencing when weather allows.

Working through borders digging over and dividing where necessary.

Re-edging both sides of grass in Versailles area.

Allotment
Planted one row of each of POTATO 'Swift', 'Rocket' and 'Lady Christl' under thin polythene.

Planted one row of each of POTATO 'Lady Christl', 'Foremost' and 'Vanessa' uncovered.

Directly sown PARSNIP 'Exhibition' and 'Gladiator'; LEEK 'Carlton', 'Snowstar', 'Bulgarian Giant', 'Vrizo', 'Musselburgh', 'Autumn Rami', 'Lyon Prizetaker', 'Edison', 'Castor' and 'Pancho'.

Parterre
Directly sown CARROT 'Eskimo', Siroco', 'Valor', 'Autumn King 2', 'Bangor' and 'Mignon'.

Transplanted PEA 'Tafila' grown in gutters and covered with a cloche.

Reclaimed Garden
Planted out BROAD BEAN 'Express' and 'Crimson Flowered' and covered with netting.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Planted out BROAD BEAN 'Bowlands Beauty' and covered with netting.

Greenhouse
Sown BRUSSELS SPROUT 'Breeze', 'Montgomery', 'Peer Gynt' and 'Millenium'; CELERY 'Giant Red' and 'Celebrity'; CABBAGE 'Stonehead'; CAULIFLOWER 'Charm' and PEPPER 'Joe's Long' into trays.

Pricked out ASTER 'Duchess mixed', 'Pink Taffeta' and 'Standy mixed'; FRENCH MARIGOLD 'Safari Mixed' and 'Red Marietta'; CABBAGE 'Colt' and CELERIAC 'Brilliant' and 'Monarch' into modules.

Potted MELON 'Early Sweet' and 'Sweetheart'; CAPE GOOSEBERRY; PEPPER 'Hercules', 'Golden Acre' and 'Mini Bell Chocolate' and CABBAGE 'Cuor di Bue' into 7cm (3") pots.

Set a beer trap for a rampant slug.

Week 4

Lifted, split and replanted SNOWDROPS.

Mowing, strimming and lawn edging.

Shredded all old BRASSICA stems and put onto compost heap.

Planted out SWEET PEAS.

Planted POTATO 'Maris Bard', 'Vanessa' and 'Rocket'.

Parterre
Planted out LETTUCE 'Fristina' and 'Lolla Rossa' .

Directly sown ONION 'North Holland' and 'Bloodred'; PARSNIP 'Lancer'; LETTUCE 'Little Gem' and RADISH 'French Breakfast'.

Elizabethan Vegetable Garden
Students from our local school, the Vale of Catmose school in Oakham, planted POTATO 'Foremost' and 'Swift'.

Greenhouse
Transplanted BRUSSELS SPROUT 'Peer Gynt', 'Breeze' and 'Montgomery'; CAULIFLOWER 'Idol' and CALABRESE 'Arcadia' into modules.

Potted on PEPPER 'Sweet Yellow', 'Inferno' and 'Jalapeno' and TOMATO 'Gardener's Delight', 'Histon Cropper' and 'Histon Early' and HDRA CELERIAC 'Tellus' into 7cm (3") pots.

Sown CABBAGE 'Colorsa' and 'Red Drumhead and KOHL RABI 'Roblau' into trays.

Sown HDRA LETTUCE 'Burpee's Iceberg'; NASTURTIUM 'Whirlybird mixed' and SUNFLOWER 'Florenza', 'Lucky Dip', 'Irish Eyes' and 'Giant Yellow' into 7cm (3") pots.

Sown LETTUCE 'Salad Bowl' into modules.

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