May - Monthly Garden Tips

With the nicer weather hopefully on its way, now is the time to finish planting your evergreen shrubs and replace any spring bedding with some summer colour.  However, beware of planting too early since late frosts can harm tender plants and pests such as slugs and greenfly will need to be dealt with.  Having checked for nesting birds, you should now be thinking about lightly trimming any hedges.

For those of you who are growing your own vegetables, potatoes should be earthed up as they begin to shoot.   And, with one eye always on the future, why not sow your pumpkin seeds now in preparation for your Halloween lantern?