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Tuesday 19 August 2008

Tasks for August

Topical tips

Keep picking those sweet peas and remove seed pods if they form.

Continue to dead-head spent flowers, especially those of summer bedding, hanging baskets and any remaining late flowering roses.

Start cutting hedges towards the end of the month.

Continue to pick vegetables and salad crops, or arrange for a neighbour to help out if you are on holiday.

Listen to the weather forecast and water greenhouses and pots accordingly.

Keep working with the hoe when the weather is warm enough.

Start taking semi ripe cuttings of fuchsias, penstemon, pelargonium, salvia etc

Start collecting seed.

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