Horky’s Weekly Gardening Tips!
21st November 2011- December is the time to select a quality fresh Christmas tree for your home, the best variety is called Nordmanii which has lovely rich green foliage with a pine fresh smell. But more importantly you will have little or no needle drop Click here to see our Christmas Trees!
- Finish planting spring flowering bulbs in borders and containers – Daffodils, tulips and snowdrops should be planted this week to ensure colour for Spring.
- Plant Frost hardy Laurel hedging this month to ensure a strong evergreen hedge ideal for all gardens. Laurel is frost hardy, evergreen and easy to trim Click here to see our Hedging!
- Beech and White thorn whips can be planted now to create a native hedge or hedgerow. Simply plant the whips 3 plants per meter for a strong dense hedge.
- Add colour to your doorway and containers with winter flowering heathers, Cyclamen, pansies, violas and primulas, you can also add some spring flowering bulbs for added colour in march.
- Lawn moss is a problem in all lawns this winter – Kill it now by applying a dressing of Sulphate of Iron, through the water can or sprayer to the entire lawn area – this treatment will kill lawn moss over night... Click here to see our Sulpahte of Iron
- Evergreen climbers can be planted this month – Ivies, evergreen Virginia creeper, evergreen clematis and evergreen prycantha are ideal for covering house and garage walls to add cover and colour all year round Click here to see our Climbers!
8. Plant rhubarb and blackcurrant plants this month in your garden soil – add some organic farm yard manure to the soil before planting. Remember December is also the time to cover existing rhubarb stems with a black dustbin to exclude light and encourage the growth of sweet pink rhubarb stems for picking in February – go on give it a go Click here to see our Fruit plants
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