AUGUST 2010
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    Harvest beans, peas, sweetcorn, tomatoes and carrots              
                           
                           
            Collect seeds of flowering plants when ready        
                           
    Gateshead FS             Ayr flower show
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Harvest swiss chard for their white stems - boil and serve with butter - use the leaves as you would spinach        
        Gather herbs for drying              
    Clean up strawberry beds after harvest                
Stop feeding roses, remove suckers, mulch around base of plants with well-rotted compost            
                           
Ayr flower show                    
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Begin lifting oinios and store in a dry, airy place   Sow spring cabbage in seedbeds          
Take semi-ripe cuttings of rosemary and thyme                  
    Remove broken branches and dead wood from fruit trees              
    Prune wisteria     Lift and pot half-hardy perennials          
                           
                    Southport Flower Show
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Tie celery stalks, wrap in newspaper and begin earthing up to blanch the stems              
    Take cuttings of lavender                  
        Prune blackcurrants after harvest              
      Take cuttings of fuschia and pelargoniums              
                           
Southport Flower Show                    
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Take semi-ripewood cuttings of shrubs                    
                           
Southend summer garden show                
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