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September 2024 — Monty Don

PRUNING SHRUB ROSES I do know that some gardeners are anxious about pruning roses nonetheless the quite a few shrub varieties such because of the gallicas, ‘english’ roses, albas or Hybrid Perpetuals are most attention-grabbing merely trimmed with shears any time this month. Do not be involved concerning the place…

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She Planted Amaranth Two Years Before now…

Margaret options in The Survival Gardener neighborhood: I’ve an amaranth story. Two years beforehand I bought an amaranth seedling merely to see the way in which during which it did. Correctly it grew about two ft tall, was stuffed with holes from some insect and ultimately it merely went into…

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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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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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