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A few ideas of what to do in the garden during August with Ken Crowther.
Ken says:
August is a time to enjoy many of the fruits of your labour. We reap crops in the vegetable garden and enjoy the many blooms flowering around our gardens. Make the most of this time of year!
0:00 Ken starts with soft fruits and says leave autumn cropping raspberries alone
0:22 Summer cropping raspberry canes need trimming back
1:08 Keep salad crops sown all the time such as radishes, spring onion, lettuce
1:35 Stone fruit trees need pruning, peaches and apricots
2:11 Lawns, if its dry use a liquid feed rather than a granular feed
Ken demonstrates the best way to clip a thuja hedge and gives a few jobs for the garden to make sure you have success later in the year.
0:00 Ken is cutting a thuja hedge with a battery trimmer
1:35 Tip the hedge to encourage branching for a full hedge
2:20 Hornbeam and beech hedges are cut in August for the leaf to stay on later in the season
2:50 Start thinking about bulbs and what and where are you going to plant for spring flowering
The garden is a constant labour of love, and Ken has a list of jobs for this week.
‘Do fairy rings really exist?’ and Ken’s answer is always the same: Yes!
Fairy rings are naturally occurring rings, or arcs, of mushrooms. They are found mainly in forested areas but can appear in the middle of a lawn, – as in this video.
Getting rid of fairy rings is no magic, but it takes a lot of work. Ken’s advice is to learn to live with them and you never know, one day you might stumble across a fairy!
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