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Essential Gardening

For May

Flowers/Plants

Pot up rooted cuttings

Sow hardy annuals outside

Sow tomatoes, marrows, courgettes, sweet

Feed established clumps of spring flowering

corn and other tender crops

bulbs

Hang yellow sticky traps above plants to

Plant out hardy annuals raised under cover
Trim back winter flowering heathers

Fruit/Vegetables

trap flying pests
Prick out seedlings that are large enough to
handle

FSow outside: carrots, parsnips, lettuces,
broad beans, peas, Swiss chard, leeks,

General

spinach and kohl rabi Harvest early rhubarb

Sow lawns or lay turf

Plant out onion sets and shallots Cover

Plant water lilies and other aquatic plants

strawberries with cloches to encourage
earlier fruiting Spray mildew on new apple
and gooseberry sho-ots

Sprinkle fertiliser along the base of hedges
and cover with mulch
Feed lawns and treat them against moss and

Greenhouse

weeds

Plant up growing bags

Watch out for slug and snail damage

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