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2009
Articles from 20th Jun 2009
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Graham Porters gardening notes: dead-heading - do it this week
Jun 20 2009 | Gardening Tips
1 Dead heading and cutting back – I know that I keep harping on about dead-heading but it is one of the most useful jobs that anyone can do at this time of year to help extend the flowering period of many annuals and to encourage second flushes of flower from some herbaceous perennials. It also helps to keep the garden looking pristine, with none of those brown, floppy, bedraggled old flowers cluttering up the garden picture. So, if you have nothing better to do this morning, take a bucket or a trug basket, a pair of secateurs and gloves if you wish and walk slowly around the garden keeping a watchful eye on any flowering plants. Where the plant produces flowers in clusters, just removing the oldest blooms will often help to encourage the ones behind it to open up. On your travels you can dug or pull up the odd weed or two. Happy gardening. Read
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Graham Porter Gardening: root ginger’s many uses
Jun 20 2009 | Gardening Tips
My wife and I adore ginger in all its forms, from ginger beer to chocolate gingers, ginger marmalade, grated ginger in savoury recipes and stem ginger in syrup. Read
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Graham Porter’s gardening diary for June 20
Jun 20 2009 | Gardening Tips
The Expert Vegetable Notebook – for those of us who have been around for a few years, the original version of this Dr Hessayon book, published in the 1970s, was a must-have book to help you record your successes and failures in the vegetable garden, gradually building up a picture of what does well and what does not on your plot of ground. Read
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Graham Porter gardening: Poplar subject to viral and bacterial diseases
Jun 20 2009 | Gardening Tips
IN THIS month’s postbag of questions, Sheila Thomson from Mount has highlighted a problem that has been on the increase in recent years. Read
