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Top Ten bank Holiday Garden Jobs

Top Ten bank Holiday Garden Jobs

By Dawn Kubicek on 28th May, 2010

  1. Spend ten minutes taking some pictures to make you focus on where your bulbs are now. So when September comes you will know what to buy and where to plant it.
  2. Put out your pots and hanging baskets and enjoy the colour. Plants from the garden centre have lived indoors until now and they will need to get used to the outdoor life.
  3. Sort out any planting muddles. A mass of tulips, primroses, violets and polyanthus can look untidy and clumpy. Why not use only one type of plant for each area?
  4. Get your hosepipe out and untangle it. If you bundled up your hosepipe roughly at the end of last season, get it outside and once it has warmed up you can roll it into a neat coil.
  5. Get the wigwams in place for your runner beans and sweet peas. If you have never grown these before why not give it a try this weekend - you will need really tall canes and make sure that the soil is well prepared, with plenty of old compost underneath where the plants will go.
  6. Before you go anywhere near a garden centre, glance in the shed to see if you need fresh supplies of canes and string. I think we are all culprits of buying garden accessories when we already bought them last year.
  7. If your lawn is riddled with taller weeds - such as buttercups, yarrow, dandelions - use a selective weed killer to control them. Now is a good time to apply fertilisers if the soil isn't dry, but at a time when you are not going to use the lawn for a few days. The end of the Bank Holiday weekend seems an excellent time.
  8. Think about getting a cold frame. These are very useful for raising seeds and sheltering seedlings and plugs until they are ready for life outside.
  9. Get tough with over grown grass. With the mower set really high, run over it now before it gets too tall, topping it off and making it look even. It will make it much easier to manage later in the summer.
  10. Have a look at Decorated Sheds garden summer rooms. Give yourself time to relax over the bank holiday and look at the benefits that a garden building would bring you year after year. From its low cost and short installation time to the beautiful designs we can create inside and out by our in house architects and interior designers.

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