Gardening jobs for the weekend, from dead-heading plants to reviewing staking arrangements 🌱
Review staking arrangement as vigorously growing plants may over-reach the supports and be liable to flop especially if subjected to heavy thunderstorms unless more support is added.
In fertile soils feeding flowers is often unnecessary, particularly if a garden compost mulch has been applied after winter. But thin, infertile soils or recalcitrant clays often repay topping up plant nutrients during this season. Flowers need much less fertiliser than vegetables and very weak home-made materials such as comfrey fertiliser are often a good if choice if used often and lavishly. Otherwise, consider seaweed fertiliser or on sandy soils which lack potassium use tomato fertiliser.
Hot, dry weather is linked to rust diseases and powdery mildew. Garden fungicides give better protectant effect than curative control and where disease strikes it is usually better to cut back plants as soon as flowering is over to limit unsightliness and disease spread. Persistent offenders such as certain monarda and phlox, both very vulnerable to powdery mildew, can be difficult to grow in gardens that lack moist soil and replacement with more robust species might be necessary.
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