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Brits Urged to Avoid These 5 Gardening Jobs Including One Common Spring 'Mistake'
Garden experts warn that early pruning and soil disturbance reduce bulb vigour and flowering, urging gardeners to preserve leaves for photosynthesis this spring.
- This spring, experts warned Brits to avoid pruning too soon and heavily disturbing soil, with Luke Newnes, gardening expert at Hillarys, urging caution about aggressive tidying.
- Because leaves feed bulbs, experts note that foliage must remain for at least six weeks to photosynthesise, as unnecessary disturbance can produce blind bulbs though replanting restores vigour over two years.
- On spacing and division, RHS advises that congested clumps of bulbs should be lifted and split into clusters of three to four bulbs and replant about 15-20cm apart with leaves intact.
- Following this advice, gardeners can improve next year’s displays by feeding tulips as they flower and keeping bulbs in pots well-lit with occasional liquid or potassium-rich feeding.
- For next steps, gardeners can plant summer-flowering bulbs from late March and set spent potted bulbs out after flowering, while snowdrops and aconites are ready for planting in the green.
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Brits urged to avoid these 5 gardening jobs including one common spring 'mistake'
There are many key tasks gardeners must take on ahead of the spring, but experts have warned that there are some things to avoid.
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The spring mistakes gardeners must avoid - including chopping daffodils
Daffodils peak in March, with more flowers to come – especially tulips – in April. Others, snowdrops for example, are already fading. Their foliage can be a little unkempt, but avoid cutting it for at least six weeks as they need the leaves to photosynthesise to build up the bulbs and flower buds for next year. Dead-head too if you have the time, so that plants can put all their energy into bigger bulbs rather than seeds. Anemone blanda, snake’s…
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