Tips for August 2020
August 1, 2020 11:18 am Comments Off on Tips for August 2020Complete summer pruning of currant bushes. Cut summer fruited raspberry canes down to soil level. Tie in healthy canes for... View Article
Author Archives for Jim Buttress
Tips for July 2020
June 26, 2020 11:13 am Comments Off on Tips for July 2020Thin overcrowded apples, pears and plums. If you do this now it means you will get larger and better quality... View Article
Tips for June 2020
June 1, 2020 7:49 am Comments Off on Tips for June 2020Plant out sweet corn 16″ apart but in blocks rather than rows as this aids pollination by the wind. Finish... View Article
Tips for May 2020
April 27, 2020 7:27 am Comments Off on Tips for May 2020Continue to earth up potatoes until June. Lift and divide overcrowded daffodil clumps. Gently separate offsets from parent plants and... View Article
Tips for April 2020
April 2, 2020 11:05 am Comments Off on Tips for April 2020If you did not prune your Lavender last autumn. do so now, using secateurs or shears to remove spent flower... View Article
Tips for March 2020
March 2, 2020 11:42 am Comments Off on Tips for March 2020Complete rose pruning this month, feeding afterwards with a proprietary rose fertiliser and mulching with garden compost or manure. Plant... View Article
Tips for February 2020
January 27, 2020 9:59 am Comments Off on Tips for February 2020Cut back late summer and autumn flowering Clematis (Group 3) 12″ from ground level. Prune autumn fruiting raspberries cutting all... View Article
Tips for Jan 2020
January 1, 2020 11:01 am Comments Off on Tips for Jan 2020You can winter-prune Wisteria this month or next, shorten shoots that were pruned last summer to two or three buds... View Article
Tips for Dec 19
December 2, 2019 9:44 am Comments Off on Tips for Dec 19Prune Acer and Betula before mid-December to avoid bleeding from cuts. Purchase seed potatoes at the end of this month.... View Article
Tips for Nov 19
October 30, 2019 9:41 am Comments Off on Tips for Nov 19Prune Acers now rather than in late spring to avoid the risk of bleeding sap. Plant tulips for spring flowering.... View Article