Got some spare time this weekend? Get out in the garden and get these quick, gardening tasks completed. Cut back tall deciduous shrubs like roses, tree mallow (lavatera) and butterfly bush (buddleia) by about a third now to prevent wind-rocking. Herbs growing outside will mostly die back during the winter, but with a bit of…
October is the perfect month for planting bare-rooted apple trees. You should choose an open, sunny, but sheltered site and make sure the ground is not prone to water logging. Fork in some well-rotted manure or compost at the rate of a good bucketful to one square metre, then apply a general fertiliser at around…
There’s a number of jobs you can be getting on with in the garden this month. These include planting trees, shrubs, roses and fruit bushes from the middle of the month onwards. You should prepare the ground in advance by digging it over and mixing in lots of compost or well-rotted manure. Add some more…