Get Ready For May With These Top 10 GYO Jobs

Grow Your Own Potatoes At Home

May can be one of the most busiest months in the garden or on the allotment so here are our top ten jobs for you to be getting on with during May:

• Plant tomatoes in greenhouses either directly in the soil or place two in a grow bag. Make sure they have plenty of support!
• Harvest asparagus spears if the plants are over two years old.
• When you leeks are pencil-thick, transplant them in to 15cm deep holes.
• Sow spring cauliflowers and winter cabbages in 1cm deep drills.
• Plant your main crop potatoes and earth up around the shoots when they are 10cm tall.
• Thin out your gooseberries by removing every other one.
• Sow different varieties of salad leaves every three weeks for a constant and fresh supply.
• Place a cloche over early strawberries to help them ripen early.
• Watch out for carrot fly – they’ll be about and ready to strike.
• Be prepared for late frosts. Even in May we can still get them!

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RHS National Gardening Week Is Now On – 15th to 21st April 2013

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Potting Table With Shelf

National Gardening Week was launched by the RHS to get the Nation Growing.

The benefits of gardening are felt by people of all ages and abilities and from all backgrounds, gardens promote a sense of purpose, and an escape from daily routine as well as providing valuable habitat and food for our wildlife and insects and of course good, home-grown, healthy fruit and vegetables for our table.

Throughout next week there are lots of Gardening events across the country organised by communities and groups as well as the RHS have a look at the RHS website for events near where you live.

It has been said that Britain is a nation of gardeners and I couldn’t agree more so what better way to celebrate gardening by getting involved with community groups, young peoples organisations e.g. Cubs, Brownies and with Schools and share your passion, experience and knowledge of this truly amazing pastime.

Dust off your trowel, put on your warm wellies and a good pair of gardening gloves and get gardening.

Slug Gone – No Slugs and It’s Environmentally Friendly!

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Slug Gone’s natural pure organic wool pellets are manufactured from the fleece of sheep. Wool fibres have very fine scales with small barbs on the tip called cuticle cells. These cause wool fibres to felt and matt together. Wool fibres are very hygroscopic and this plus the sand and grit already in the compound and the potassium salts from the sweat glands of the sheep absorb some of the slime from the slug’s foot to cause irritation, resulting in the slug finding easier feeding methods.

‘Slug Gone’ wool pellets are composed of 100% natural materials including phosphorous, nitrogen and potassium. As soon as water is added the fibres swell to form a barrier or insulation blanket. When slugs climb onto the fibres it irritates the foot and causes it to seek easier feeding elsewhere.

‘Slug Gone’ wool pellets are ideal for organic gardening and can be used in pots, flower beds, borders, allotments, herb gardens, nurseries, garden centres, green houses and vegetable plots.

To Use:

Clean the area around the plant and place the pellets to fill the surface of the pot, or in a 6” circle around the plant. Make sure all the pellets are touching.
Water well and soon the pellets will swell and bind together to form both a prtotective and insulating blanket.

Available in 3.5L and 20L bags.

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