Jobs in the garden this week..

27th September 2011

Horky’s Weekly Gardening Tips

1. Sow green manure seed into your vegetable garden now, Green manure will grow during the winter and spring season and can be simply dug into the soil in April where it will add much needed natural nutrition

2. Broad bean seeds can be sown now indoors for planting out into the vegetable garden in mid October. Broad beans sown now will reward you with an early bumper crop of broad beans next summer Click here to see our Vegetable Seeds

3. You still have time to sow vegetable pea seed into the vegetable garden, choose Meteor variety for a quality great tasting pea in early summer Click here to see our Vegetable Seeds

4. Garlic, Hardy spring onions, lettuce and cabbage plants and Japanese onions can still be planted over the next three weeks in your vegetable garden for great fresh pickings in early summer next year

5. Blueberries can be planted any time during September; they are easy to grow, ideal in pots and patio planters and will bear fruit next summer Click here to see our Fruit Plants

6. Plant Fritillaries, Winter aconites, snowdrop and bluebell bulbs now out of doors where you want them to flower next spring. Remember bulbs are easy to grow, very free flowering and will flower this and every spring Click here to see our Flowering Bulbs

7. Kill lawn moss now with an application of Sulphate of iron applied to the entire lawn area. Apply through a spreader or watering can evenly onto the effected lawn area. Sulphate of Iron can be applied in wet weather Click here to see our Sulphate of Iron

8. Start a compost heap in your garden. Add grass clippings, fallen leaves, un cooked household waste, light plant prunings. Remember to add some organic activator to each layer in the compost heap and turn the entire compost heap twice over the winter period.

9. Plant the stunning Virginia creeper now onto house walls and garages. Virginia creeper grows quickly, self clings to concrete and wooded structures and produces amazing colour from autumn to early winter

10. Plant some shallot onions now out of doors for great tasting fresh shallots in April or may next year.

Visit Horkans lifestyle & Garden centre this weekend and enjoy family lunch in the Bayleaf restaurant which opens every Sunday from 12 to 6pm