活動／戦闘 計画（する）: CIAR BYRNE's 必須の 職業s for your garden this week

By Ciar Byrne For The Daily Mail

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PRICK OUT TOMATO SEEDLINGS

If you have already sown tomato seeds, they may have germinated by now and be ready to prick out. This is the 過程 of moving the seedling to its own コンテナ to grow it in.?

You will know that they are ready when they have a pair of leaves and are big enough to 扱う. Make sure to 持つ／拘留する your seedling by the leaves as touching the 茎・取り除く may bruise it.?

Before pricking out, 準備する the コンテナ you are going to move it into ― ideally a 9cm マリファナ ― by filling it with a general-目的 peat-解放する／自由な compost and tamping 負かす／撃墜する the surface.?

Then, carefully 持つ／拘留するing the leaves, use a small 木造の or plastic dibber to tease out the roots of the seedling without 損失ing them.?

Make a 穴を開ける with the dibber in the compost of the new マリファナ then gently lower your seedling into this and 会社／堅い the growing medium around it.?

If you have already sown tomato seeds, they may have germinated by now and be ready to prick out

If you have already sown tomato seeds, they may have germinated by now and be ready to prick out

Water using a can with a 罰金 靴下／だます attachment and place your newly potted seedling in a light place with a 気温 of at least 16C.?

When the first flower trusses appear in a few weeks’ time, your tomato 工場／植物 will be ready to move to its final growing position.

Sunflowers are easy to grow and make a fun project to do with children

Sunflowers are 平易な to grow and make a fun 事業／計画（する） to do with children

FAMILY FUN

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus)?are 平易な to grow and make a fun 事業／計画（する） to do with children.?

The seeds are best sown in April or May into individual small マリファナs filled with peat-解放する／自由な compost.?

工場／植物 one seed to a マリファナ and water 井戸／弁護士席, then leave in a warm, sunny place to germinate.?

Have fun by trying different varieties, from the enormous ロシアの 巨大（な） to russet-トンd 願望（する） Red or pale yellow Lemon Queen.

Draw soil around potato plants as they grow to protect shoots from late frost damage

Draw 国／地域 around potato 工場／植物s as they grow to 保護する shoots from late 霜 損失

EARTH UP POTATOES

Earthing up is the 過程 of 製図／抽選 国／地域 around potato 工場／植物s as they grow to 保護する shoots from late 霜 損失 and 確実にする the tubers are not exposed to light.?

Once potatoes reach about 23cm high, draw the 国／地域 up around them leaving about 10cm above the surface. Repeat this 過程 several times until the 山の尾根 is 20-30cm high.?

If you are growing in コンテナs, 追加する extra compost until the surface is just below the 縁 of the マリファナ.

PLANT OF THE WEEK

Bleeding heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)

The bleeding heart plant (pictured) is also available in pure white and yellow varieties

The bleeding heart 工場／植物 (pictured) is also 利用できる in pure white and yellow varieties

The bleeding heart 工場／植物 is a spring-flowering herbaceous perennial which gets its 指名する from its 独特の arching 茎・取り除くs 耐えるing around a dozen small heart-形態／調整d pink flowers, each with a white ‘droplet’ 現れるing from the 底（に届く）.?

Native to 中国 and Korea, it has only been grown in Europe for the past 200 years.?

以前は known as dicentra, it prefers alkaline or 中立の 国／地域 in a 避難所d 位置／汚点／見つけ出す, 部分的な／不平等な shade or dappled sunlight.?

It is also 利用できる in pure white and yellow varieties. It dies 支援する in autumn but is hardy and 再現するs the に引き続いて spring.?

READER'S QUESTION

Should we 除去する aconitum from our garden??

Peter Boyle, Lymington, Hants.?

Aconitum, or monkshood as it is 一般的に known, is a beautiful but 有毒な perennial.?

Also known as wolfsbane, it gets its 指名する from its 独特の purple flowers which look like tiny 修道士s’ cowls.?

If you have curious children or pets who are たびたび（訪れる） 訪問者s to your garden, then it is probably a good idea to dig it up and 配置する／処分する／したい気持ちにさせる of the waste 安全に, as all parts of the 工場／植物 are 高度に poisonous if ingested.?

Cover your 武器 and wear gloves while 扱うing it, as the toxins can 侵入する the 肌.

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