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Sowing, Growing & Planting
It’s not too late to plant up baskets & containers with summer bedding plants, if you have not got to them yet. There is a great selection of 1ltr patio plants such as Argyranthemum, Glechoma, Potunia, Surfinia & Bacopa that will give you instant colour and will add volume to your baskets.
Regular deadheading will encourage a second flush of flowers. Feed hanging baskets and containers with tomato food or a multi-purpose liduid fertiliser like miracle gro or phostagen to encourage both growth and a longer flowering period.
Perennials are ready available at this time of the year, dead head and cut back early flowering plants to tidy up borders and make room for later flowering plants. Plant Verbena bonariensis, Agapanthus Dr Brouwer, Digitalis Dalmation White, Lupins, Penstemon & Coreopsis to add height into borders and attract bees to the garden. Hosta’s are great for adding a splash of foliage colour to shady areas, remember to keep watch for slugs and apply a slug & snail killer as a barrier.
Add Nemesmia dent Confetti, Geranium cin Ballerina, Phlox amon Variegata & Campanula garg Major for low spreading perennials that will fill out border edges and rockeries.
Keep weeds under control in the vegetable garden so they don’t compete with your plants for nutrients and water. Ventilate greenhouse crops in hot weather, keep watch for aphids and mildews and keep under control with bug clear. Continue to feed tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.
Watch out for Cabbage White Butterfly eggs on Brassicas. Keep blight at bay from potatoes and tomatoes with a bordeaux mixture. Keep vegetables well-watered in dry spells. Apply netting over fruit to prevent birds feasting off this years crop.
General Maintenanace
Support tall perennials and tall summer flowering bulbs with bamboo canes, plant rings that they can grow through and curved metal support frames.
Early flowering shrubs that have finished flowering can be pruned.
Check roses regularly for aphids and black spot spray when necessary.
Newly planted trees and shrubs will need to be watered in dry spells.
Water and feed your indoor plants, keep watch for signs for pest and disease.
Lawn Maintenance
Raise the height of the mower mid-July as lawn growth slows down, this will help high traffic lawns not to look as tired. Keep edges along pathways trimmed with a lawn shears and edger.
Remember to water new lawns planted in spring during dry spells.
A summer feed can still be applied, if not already done so, where weeds are a problem use a combination of feed and weed.
See you soon at Powerscourt Garden Pavilion!
Claire Hayes, Manager
Regular deadheading will encourage a second flush of flowers. Feed hanging baskets and containers with tomato food or a multi-purpose liduid fertiliser like miracle gro or phostagen to encourage both growth and a longer flowering period.
Perennials are ready available at this time of the year, dead head and cut back early flowering plants to tidy up borders and make room for later flowering plants. Plant Verbena bonariensis, Agapanthus Dr Brouwer, Digitalis Dalmation White, Lupins, Penstemon & Coreopsis to add height into borders and attract bees to the garden. Hosta’s are great for adding a splash of foliage colour to shady areas, remember to keep watch for slugs and apply a slug & snail killer as a barrier.
Add Nemesmia dent Confetti, Geranium cin Ballerina, Phlox amon Variegata & Campanula garg Major for low spreading perennials that will fill out border edges and rockeries.
Keep weeds under control in the vegetable garden so they don’t compete with your plants for nutrients and water. Ventilate greenhouse crops in hot weather, keep watch for aphids and mildews and keep under control with bug clear. Continue to feed tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.
Watch out for Cabbage White Butterfly eggs on Brassicas. Keep blight at bay from potatoes and tomatoes with a bordeaux mixture. Keep vegetables well-watered in dry spells. Apply netting over fruit to prevent birds feasting off this years crop.
General Maintenanace
Support tall perennials and tall summer flowering bulbs with bamboo canes, plant rings that they can grow through and curved metal support frames.
Early flowering shrubs that have finished flowering can be pruned.
Check roses regularly for aphids and black spot spray when necessary.
Newly planted trees and shrubs will need to be watered in dry spells.
Water and feed your indoor plants, keep watch for signs for pest and disease.
Lawn Maintenance
Raise the height of the mower mid-July as lawn growth slows down, this will help high traffic lawns not to look as tired. Keep edges along pathways trimmed with a lawn shears and edger.
Remember to water new lawns planted in spring during dry spells.
A summer feed can still be applied, if not already done so, where weeds are a problem use a combination of feed and weed.
See you soon at Powerscourt Garden Pavilion!
Claire Hayes, Manager 
