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    Every week, Luke provides listeners to his Gardener's Diary show with a Fact Sheet about the programme - download the fact sheets here.
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    Fact Sheet 1 - OCTOBER
    • How to Prepare Your Vegetable Plot
    • Ornamental Gardens
    • Repairing lawns
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    Fact Sheet 2
    • Compost
    • Saving Summer Bedding Plants
    • Planting Winter Crops
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 3
    • Repairing holes in your lawn
    • Creating a Border
    • Rockeries and Alpine Beds
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 4
    • Planting your Fruit Trees
    • Removing Coarse Grass
    • Night Temperatures
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 5
    • Planting Soft Fruit Canes
    • Sowing Peas
    • Pest Problems
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 6- NOVEMBER
    • Pruning Roses
    • Patio Plants
    • Hedging Plants
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 7
    • Protecting Tender Shrubs
    • Herb Beds
    • Care of machinery and equipment
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 8
    • Hardwood Cuttings
    • Lawn Jobs
    • Stored onions and shallots
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 9
    • How to Create a Herb Planter
    • Beating the winter gardening blues
    • Planning for next year
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 10 - DECEMBER
    • Can U Dig It!
    • Greenhouse care
    • Keep off the grass!
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 11
    • Clean up paths and drives
    • Planning for next season
    • Planting Cobnuts
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 12
    • Christmas Jobs
    • Moving bulbs
    • Wilting Pointsettias
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 13 and 14
    • Get digging
    • Diseases
    • Transforming bleak areas
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 15 - JANUARY
    • Pruning Fruit Trees
    • Disinfecting pots and trays
    • Pest problems
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 16
    • How to Prepare Your Vegetable Plot
    • Greenhouse temperature
    • Mulch
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 17
    • Sow Sweet Pea and Tomato Seeds
    • Chit Potatoes
    • Cauliflower Crop
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 18
    • Planting Shallots
    • Scalping!
    • Dahlia's
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 19 - FEBRUARY
    • Separating Herbaceous Plants
    • Protecting your shoots
    • Moles
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 20
    • Potting on Dahlias
    • Pruning winter flowered shrubs
    • Scarid Fly
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 21
    • Pruning Shrubs
    • Sowing Vegetable Seeds
    • Cats
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 22
    • Perennial plants
    • Seedlings
    • Mildew on Fuchsias
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 23 - MARCH
    • Sowing herbs
    • Planting carrots and parsnips
    • Repairing lawns
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 24
    • Planting summer roses
    • Tree ferns
    • Rolling the lawn
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 25
    •
    Trim newly planted hedges
    • Training plants
    • Lawn Weeds
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 26
    • Plant finished bulbs
    • Re-pot cacti
    • Feeding figs
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 27 - APRIL
    • Plant out Sweet Peas
    • Sow lawn seed
    • Pest problems with apples and pears
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 28
    • Weekly Weeding Programme
    • Mowing the lawn
    • Plant tomatoes
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    Here
    Fact Sheet 29
    • Protect young foilage
    • Harden off Bedding Plants
    • African Violets Pest Problems
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    Here

    Fact Sheet 30
    • Prune Shrubs
    • Pot on Fuschias
    • Celery trenches

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    Here
    Fact Sheet 31
    • Feed Shrubs
    • Start shading
    • Plant out leeks
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 32 - MAY
    • Plant some conifers
    • Keep damping down
    • Cut newly sown lawns
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    Fact Sheet 33
    • Feed spring bulbs
    • Time to plant melons
    • Create a Chamomile lawn
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 34
    • Remove old Bedding Plants
    • Sowing seeds for winter flowering
    • Lawn Care
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 35
    • Start planting new Bedding Plants
    • Dampen the greenhouse!
    • Summer lawn mowing
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    Fact Sheet 36 - JUNE
    • Saving water
    • Thinning Fruitlets
    • Willow Scab
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 37
    • Top Dress and Deadhead your Roses
    • Clean up the Greenhouse
    • Trim the lawn
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 38
    • Water butts this summer!
    • Pyracantha scab
    • Look after your onions and asparagus
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 39
    • Remove suckers
    • Sow hardy perennial seed
    • Give shallots and garlic a helping hand
    Flower.Download here

    Fact Sheet 40 - JULY
    • Stay busy in the flower garden
    • Keep the greenhouse cool
    • Feed tomatoes

    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 41
    • Herbal entertaining
    • Daily watering in the greenhouse
    • Feeding peas
    Flower.Download here

    Fact Sheet 42
    • Attention to Vines
    • Feeding peppers and aubergines
    • Drought problems

    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 43
    • Rejuvenating Rhodo's & Azalea's
    • Pot up and harden off
    •
    Sow Spring Cabbage
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 44
    • Start planning your bulbs!
    • Tidy currants
    • Horse chestnut scale
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 45 - AUGUST
    • Remove tired bedding plants
    • Get in a pickle with your onions
    • Last chance weed killing
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 46
    • Heathers
    • Plug the greenhouse gaps
    • Fishing for fruit
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 47
    • Trim coniferous hedges
    • Remove Cues
    • Sowing new areas of grass
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 48
    • Plant bulbs in containers
    • Grass pathways
    • White rot on onions
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 49 - SEPTEMBER
    • Treating timber
    • Return plants to the greenhouse
    • Sowing turnips
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 50
    • Top dress ericaceous plants
    • Pelargonium & Geranium cuttings
    • Autumn Lawn Care
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 51
    • Plant containerised trees
    • Greenhouse - remove shading
    • Sow new areas of lawn
    Flower.Download here
    Fact Sheet 52
    • Have an autumnal clean up!
    • Harvest grapes
    • Treat tree diseases
    Flower.Download here
    Now back to Fact Sheet One and start all over again!!

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