Horky’s Weekly Gardening Tips!
Spring Gardening Tips:
Growing your own vegetables and flowers can be fun, rewarding and a very cheap way to supplying your own home with a bounty of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit and filling your garden with colour and scent.
January is the ideal time to sow fresh vegetables, herbs and flowers from seed indoors in seed trays for planting out in early spring.
So may garden plants can be simply start on a warm, bright window sill indoors at this time of year
Some of the Key Gardening Jobs to complete now include:
o Double flowering Dahlias can be planted from Tubers now, simply pot up the dahlia tubers in seed trays or individual pots, use Supergrow compost for best results, and place the pots on a warm bright window sill to sprout. Dahlia tubers are now available for planting in a wide variety of colours and flowering types.
o Plant Timberely Early Rhubarb plants now directly into your garden soil, remember you will need six rhubarb plants to provide regular pickings all summer long. Add organic compost and some seamunges pellets to the soil before planting.
o Fruiting plants including Apple, Pear , blackcurrants, Gooseberries and redcurrants can be pruned this month to encourage strong growth and help to increase fruiting ability and fruit size this summer. Now is also an ideal time to plant new fruit trees and bushes.Click here to check out or special offers on FRUIT TREES
o Kill moss on Patio driveways, tarmac and slates now with an application of Patio Magic – Simply spray the Patio Magic treatment over the effected area on a dry day – Patio Magic works quickly to eradicate moss on all hard surface areas. Read instructions carefullyClick here for our amazing offers on PATIO MAGIC this month
o Asparagus plants can be planted outdoors this month into well prepared and manured soil – Asparagus is a perennial vegetable and provides regular pickings from early spring each year. Remember to prepare the soil well and add in plenty of Organic compost to enrich the soil
o Its time to prune back roses in your garden – Growth has started early this spring so its important to cut back roses now to stimulate new growth on which the flowers will be carried this summer. Remember to clean off your rose bed after pruning and clean the soil of weeds.
o Parsley, both flat leaved and moss curled varieties should be sown from seed now indoors in gentle heat – Parsley takes some time to germinate but is easy to grow from seed if sown early indoors for planting out in early spring.
o Protect any tender plants or early flowering plants from frost by covering with some garden fleece – Simply drape the fleece over the tender shoots or flowers.Click here to get a great offer on GARDEN FLEECE to protect your new plants
Paraic is back with his weekly radio programme on mid west radio every Saturday morning at 9am from March 3rd. and weekly on Tv3 Ireland am morning programme with a gardening advise slot every Thursday morning at 9am from Thursday February 2nd Check out Paraic weekly blog on www.gardencentre.ie for weekly gardening advise and tips
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