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Your Monthly Guide: August

WATCH OUT:

 

  • For the progression of blight on tomatoes and potatoes

  • For black fly on beans and white fly on brassicas

  • Keep an eye out for caterpillars on brassicas.

TO DO LIST:

 

  • Remove any blight infected plants and burn or bin them to minimise the chance of it spreading.

  • Potato stems and leaves can be cut back and the tubers left in the ground until you want them.

  • Treat black fly and white fly however you see fit, this could be with soft soap or insecticides.

  • As pigeons will continue to eat your brassicas, so keep them netted

  • Remove caterpillars when spotted.  

WHAT SHOULD YOU SOW NOW?

 

  • Wallflowers

  • Winter Pansy

  • Lettuce

  • Radish

  • Spring Cabbage

  • Take cuttings from semi ripe wood from sage, rosemary, thyme, etc. for new plants next year.

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