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M AY G A R D E N T I P S
• Time to plant up your hanging baskets and containers. • Give some of your border perennials the “Chelsea Chop”. If you cut some of them back by about half now it will delay flowering but extend the display longer in your garden. • Harden-off annual bedding plants ready to plant out soon. Put them in a shady spot, keep well watered but bring them back inside if frost is likely. • Be ready to cover tender plants with horticultural fleece if frosts are forecast. Check the forecast every day this month. • Order slug nematodes and rid your plants of this pest the natural and safe way. • Stake border perennial varieties that are tall growing and that tend to flop over. Either use pea sticks (tree and shrub prunings are good) or use purpose-made support systems. • Plant out Cannas and Cosmos (chocolate plant), Dahlias and Begonias. • Trim foliage off early flowering perennials to encourage fresh new leaves. Lungwort (Pulmonaria) responds particularly well. • Hostas divide well this month. Lift clumps and split them up making certain that each shoot has plenty of root attached. • Wait until spring flowering bulb leaves die back naturally before removing them. • Watch out for scarlet lily beetles. This pest can eat your lily leaves in a few days! • Earth up early potatoes and keep a watch out for late frosts, cover with horticultural fleece if frost is likely.
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