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Your Gardening Guide for May
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AUTUMN
Your Gardening Guide for May
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Welcome to May!
May Top Tips
#1 Prune
Prune fruit trees ensuring you don’t remove next years fruiting spurs
#2 Soil care
Prepare new beds- dig over the soil, work in compost and spread with a protective layer of mulch
#3 Prevent
Pick up all fallen or affected fruit to prevent fruit fly.
#4 Weed
Remove all weeds and any plants in your garden you don’t want to spread before they start to go to seed.
Diggers top pest tips
Slugs and Snails
Slugs and snails are out. Sprinkle organic pellets around newly planted seedlings. Also use beer traps.
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Diggers top garden ideas
Spring Flowering Bulbs
Now is the last chance to plant winter and spring flowering bulbs
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Encourage ladybirds and lacewings
Encourage ladybirds and lacewings (natural predators to thrips) by planting beneficial plants: dill, coriander, Queen Anne's lace, Fennel, Tansy, Cosmos, Coriander and Marigolds.
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