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Garden Maintenance

October 1, 2024 by Samantha Willis

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Garden Maintenance Oxford and Chipping Norton

We offer garden maintenance for all year round.

This is the time to prune and mulch your plants including your roses. Providing them with some lovely nutrients for the spring. These beautiful roses are David Austin roses Tranquility

It’s time to put your garden to bed for the winter, prune your plants ready for next year.

You can also plan to plant your bare root plants from hedges to roses, planting them in teh winter ready for the Spring growth.

If you want some help for your garden from maintance to garden design in Oxfordshire, Cotswold, Chipping Norton please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Garden Maintenance

September 24, 2024 by Samantha Willis

Garden Maintenance

Its the time of year to put your garden to bed.
As well as garden design and landscaping we offer garden maintenence so please don’t hesiste to contact us if you need help to keep on top of your garden.

As part of garden maintenance we offer pruning, weeding and mulching in Oxfordshire.

Please don’t hestiate to contact us contact us. if you need some help

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The Allotment in Winter

December 4, 2013 by Samantha Willis

As we prepare for warm winter evenings in front of the fire there are just a few jobs you could do to on those lovely clear winter days.

  • In anticipation of frosts and winds, cover your root vegetables with straw or cardboard up to 30cms, to enable you to dig the ground when you want your vegetables. Also stake your sprouts and earth up your cabbages to prevent wind rock.  If we have a hard frost coming you can protect your cauliflowers by wrapping a few of the outer leaves around them.
  • Plant garlic anytime before Christmas in well drained soil; do not plant on freshly manure sites as the garlic is prone to rot.  There are varieties of onions that you can plant now which can be harvested in June.
  • Take hard wood cuttings of currants and gooseberries and indeed any other shrubs.
  • Protect any pots by wrapping them with bubble wrap and then if you think that is not aesthetically beautiful enough add a little hessian to the outside.
  • If you have existing apple and pear trees it is time to get out and prune them. You’re aiming for an open goblet shape, so remove any crossing branches, damaged and horizontal branches and prune to an outward facing bud. Do not prune your soft fruit trees at this time of year as you can damage them.  Also leave trained apple and pear trees alone such as espaliers as these require summer pruning.
  • If you want Rhubarb now is the time to plant it, you may be lucky and get a crown off a neighbour.  When you’re planting Rhubarb dig in a lot of manure around the crown and let the crown peek out and see the light it does not appreciate being buried.
  • Cut leaves from the crowns of kale to encourage side shoots for harvesting in late winter

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