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Regularly feed fruit, vegetables and ornamentals grown in bags or containers with a suitable liquid fertiliser. |
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Keep ripening strawberries free of soil splashes, by putting straw or matting around the plant. |
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Cover brassicas with insect proof mesh after planting out to prevent cabbage white butterflies laying eggs. |
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Tie in new canes of raspberries, black berries and hybrid berries |
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Where practical, carefully remove faded flowers and developing seedpods on rhododendrons. Also remove unopened flower buds, they may be affected by bud blast. |
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Sow biennials such as wallflowers, sweet William, foxgloves, biennial clary (Salvia sclarea) and sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis) for next year’s flowering |
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