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January 2024 — Monty Don

This yard and all who sail in her is floating into 2024 – nearly actually. It has barely stopped raining for the sooner three months and as I write this the fields so far as the attention can see are beneath water as is sections of the yard .That is…

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December 2023 — Monty Don

DECEMBER JOBSCHRISTMAS TREESThe hottest Christmas timber are,Norway Spruce (picea abies), The Nordman Fir (Abies nordmanniana,) or the Colorado Spruce (picea pungens). All three are superb, have particular virtues and may remaining for a protracted Christmas season if taken care of appropriately. All three might even develop in most gardens within the…

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November 2023 — Monty Don

GATHER LEAVES TO MAKE LEAFMOULDEvery fallen leaf is potential leafmould and leafmould  which, in distinction to compost, takes no turning, mixing or knowledge to make, is yard gold.  So I’m obsessive about making leafmould, gathering as lots of the fallen leaves as potential, mowing them to cut them up after which…

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June 2023 — Monty Don

Grass CuttingBy June 1,000,000 gardens are ceaselessly buzzing – and at occasions unpleasantly roaring – with the sound of motor- mowers sustaining the grass trim and beneath administration. Nonetheless at Longmeadow we limit this to paths and try to let as relatively so much grass as potential develop extended and…

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January 2023 — Monty Don

The Vegetable GardenThe spring salad crops are sown all through the primary week of January. I frequently use pure seed the place potential. These will embody Rocket, Mizuna, Little Gem and Tom Thumb lettuce and curly endive. This looks like a constructive, inventive approach to begin the 12 months. It…

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6 Tricks to Assist Your Crops Survive Your Journey — Seattle’s Favourite Yard Retailer Since 1924

Tip #5: Do some plant-sitter trainingWe all know crops want frequent water nonetheless are you conscious that when and the easiest way you water would possibly make the excellence between a healthful plant and a tragic (and even lifeless) plant? Accurately in actuality YOU did, nonetheless your chosen plant sitter…

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Demystifying a Drip Irrigation System — Seattle’s Favourite Yard Retailer Since 1924

Finish clampsFinally, it’s time to shut your system! Finish clamps are the one method to shut your system by bending a drip tubing as soon as extra on itself. Finish plugs are a further environment nice half, as in addition to they operate as a water launch valve on the…

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Pruning Calendar — Seattle’s Favourite Yard Retailer Since 1924

Thought of one in all many additional widespread questions requested by newer gardeners is, “when is probably going one of many biggest time of yr to prune my __________?” The choices out there in the marketplace can fluctuate from “the primary listening to of tree frogs after the second full…

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