Tag: Mow

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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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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