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Vegetable Garden
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Harvest of late summer veges: pumpkins, marrows, potatoes, onions. Store in a cool dry shed.
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Sow seeds of beetroot, broccoli, broad beans, cabbage, carrots, onions, radish, spinach, swedes and turnips.
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Transplant seedlings of broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, couliflower, celery, leeks, lettuce, silverbeet and spinach.
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Dig up leeks.
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Protect young seedlings from slugs and snails Slug & Snail Bait.
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Vacant areas of the vegetable garden should be sown with a green crop such as lupin or mustard for digging in later.
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Offset winter rain by planting vegetables in raised beds. Rhubarb crowns which have become over crowded will need to be dug up, divided and replanted into compost enriched soil.
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Plant potatoes in frost-free areas.
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Plant parsley and perennial herbs.
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Fruit Trees
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Most tree fruits have been harvested with the exception of late fruiting apples.
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Start your winter clean-up programme by spraying all trees with Super Copper fungicide before pruning. Sharpen all pruning gear to make the job easier.
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Flower Garden
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A busy month for tidying up old summer annuals and replacing with primulas, cinerarias, nemesia, iceland poppies, calendula, stock, pansies, violas, polyanthus, penstemon, snapdragon and hollyhock.
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Sow seeds of aquilegia, alyssum, calendula, cineraria, cornflower, dianthus, English daisy, godetia, linaria, livingstone daisy, lobelia, lupin, nemesia, snapdragon, statice, stock, sweetpea and viola.
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Continue planting spring bulbs.
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Dead head roses as autumn flower finish.
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Plant trees and shrubs. At planting time add a long term fertiliser such as Osmocote or Magamp.
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Prune shrubs that have finished flowering.
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Lift and divide crowded perennials.
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Lawns
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This is the best month for sowing new lawns and refurbishing old ones with Butlers Lawn Seed.
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Control broadleaf weeds in lawns with Turfix.
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Apply Butlers Lawn Fertiliser to all existing lawns.
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Control weeds with Roundup
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Mulch all trees, shrubs and roses with Results Organic Compost.
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