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November
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Money
saving tip: Container grown spring bulbs
are better off without too much fertilizer
so use a cheap compost and then feed after
flowering. |
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| 2. |
Time
saving tip: This is the time to dig
over the vegetable plot. Instead of clearing
the old leaves to the compost heap, dig
a trench and bury them. They will soon rot
down and you have done the digging as well. |
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| 3. |
Don’t
walk over the lawn after a heavy frost.The
crunching sound you hear is the blades of
grass snapping.After the frost goes you
will be left with yellow patches where you
stepped. |
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When
planting trees and shrubs add some slow
acting fertilizer to the planting hole.
Bone meal or fish meal is available over
a long period and will get the plants off
to a good start. |
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Lift
some roots of parsley and trim off the leaves.
Pot them up in a soil based compost and
place on the kitchen window.It will regrow
with foliage to last all winter. |
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| 6. |
If
your garden suffers from hard frosts cover
tender perennials such as kniphofia (red
hot poker) with bark mulch to protect the
plant. |
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Cut
the tops off the Jerusalem artichokes. Dig
up the roots and store them along with the
potatoes in a frost proof shed. |
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| 8. |
There
is nothing to beat early, young, tender
stalks of rhubarb dipped in sugar and eaten
raw or as a rhubarb tart. |
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Lift
a few 2 year old roots and allow them
to be frosted. Pot them in a soil based
compost, water them and cover with a bucket
or black plastic bin liner. Keep in the
greenhouse or garage. Early in the new
year you can pick your own stalks.
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Japanese
acers in containers should be moved to a
sheltered side of the house away from biting,
cold winds which cause dieback of the branches. |
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