
June
- Keep on top of weeding!
- If there is a dry spell water your plants
- Pinch out side shoots on tomatoes
- Pick lettuce and other salads, harvest your early potatoes and eat them straight away!
- Plant up your hanging baskets and summer containers
- Cut your lawn once a week
- Tidy and cut back spring flowering perennials
- Plant out your summer bedding
- Stake or support any tall or floppy plants - Millbrook have a wide range of stakes and supports in store
- Watch out for pests and diseases and cut back suckers on roses
July
- As it warms up - be water-wise where possible watering in the evenings and at the base of your plants where possible
- Dead head bedding plants and repeat flowering perennials to ensure continuous flowering
- Pick courgettes before they become marrows!
- Clear algae and blanket weed from ponds and keep the water levels topped up
- Give your lawn a treat with a quick-acting summer feed such as Westland After cut £6.99 for 3.5kg (enough to cover 100 sq m)
- If the weather is dry give any garden woodwork a lick of paint or preserver - see in store for our great range of treatments and paints from Cuprinol
- During hot spells ensure there is clean water in your garden for the birds
- Trim conifer hedges
August
- Dead head flowering plants regularly
- Don’t forget to keep on water-wise watering - particularly containers, hanging baskets and any new plants - see our feature overleaf
- Collect seeds from favourite plants
- Summer prune wisteria by cutting back the new long shoots to five or six buds from the main stems
- Shade greenhouses to keep them cool
- Mow the grass less frequently of the weather is hot and dry
- Lightly prune rambling roses after flowering
September
- Scarify and aerate established lawns - take a look at the WOLF Electric Scarifier in store (price £159)
- Plant new trees, shrubs and climbers, move evergreen shrubs
- Stop feeding trees and shrubs in containers
- Start planting new perennials and divide those that have overgrown
- Plant spring flowering bulbs - have a look in store at our fabulous range
- Plant out spring cabbages, autumn onion sets and new strawberry plants
October
- Rake up fallen leaves and pile them up to make leaf mould
- Dig over empty areas of soil
- Finish planting evergreen shrubs, new perennials and plant new climbers
- Lift and store dahlias, gladioli and summer-flowering bulbs
- Lift and divide rhubarb
November
- Clear out nesting boxes and make sure there is food for the birds - visit our birdcare areas in store
- Plant bare-rooted trees, shrubs, and roses, fruit trees and bushes
- Protect tender and newly planted shrubs from frost and wind and insulate pots left out for the winter - we’ve got Fleece Jackets for vulnerable plants at £4.99
- Begin winter pruning of deciduous trees and shrubs, fruit trees and bushes
- Plant tulip bulbs