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Jobs to do in your veg plot now

Time to plant some fruit, harvest winter leeks, sow hardy peas, give Brussels some support and start digging for winter.....

7 jobs to do in your garden this week

Some gardens still look good but it’s time to tidy up and decide which plants to leave standing over winter.
Time to tidy up your plot

Time to tidy up your plot

Autumn clean the veg patch - Prepare soil, clear weeds, finish harvesting and have a tidy up
Protect you alpine plants

5 jobs to do in the garden this week

Protect alpines from winter wet, lift dahlia tubers, dig over your borders and cut back your roses to reduce wind damage.
Perennials

7 jobs to do now

Help your tender perennials to survive the winter, plant sweet williams and wallflowers, sow sweet peas and prune buddleias.
Sow broad beans now

Fruit & Veg jobs to do this week

Sow broad beans, harvest raspberries, dry and store pumpkins and squash, finish picking grapes and cover peach trees.
Get ready for winter

Fruit and veg jobs

It’s time to give the greenhouse a clean and put up insulation before the cold weather arrives, wash and disinfect everything, pull up and compost runner beans, remove mummified fruit, watch out for pear rust, cut down asparagus fronds, cover bare ground and leave chillies to turn red.
Cyclamen

Jobs to do this week

This week plant cyclamen corms, cut down lilies and prepare ground for new shrubs

Jobs in the veg plot

Now’s the ideal time to take hardwood cuttings to increase your stock of currants, gooseberries & figs, earth up potatoes, finish harvesting veg on the plot, cover crops with cloches and pick up rotten fruit.

Appreciate Autumn's Asters

Garden News regular CAROL KLEIN looks at the beauty of Michaelmas daisies
Hege main

Jobs to do this week

This week it’s time to get your hedges neat and tidy for winter, lift cannas and net ponds to keep out leaves
white tulips

Jobs to do in the garden this weekend

It’s time to plan your bulb displays for next spring, clear pond weeds and spend the Bank Holiday in the garden
Deadheading

Jobs to do in the garden now

Keep borders looking their best, feed containers, prune conifer hedges and take fuchsia cuttings
Rucksack

Complete this survey on the outdoors and you could win an £80 daysack

Complete this quick survey and you could win a top of the range rucksack from Berghaus
Yalding Gardens

Yalding organic garden re-opens under new owner

Yalding’s famous organic garden in Kent has re-opened under new ownership with a new-look café and farm shop.

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Danbury & Little Baddow Summer Show 2009
Saturday 11th July 2009, Little Baddow Memorial Hall. 2.30pm.

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