If you're off on your holidays soon but you're worried about the garden you've been working hard on all year then there are a few last-minute things you can do to avoid returning to bedraggled plants and tired containers
forecast in the UK this August but hopefully you will have arranged for someone to come in and water the plants while you’re away. Make sure the watering cans and water butts are easily accessible and that your designated ‘waterer’ knows what to do and which plants take priority.
If you haven’t arranged for someone to water your garden, you could set up an automatic irrigation system – or if you already have one installed, make sure it’s working properly. And if you have got a kindly soul to help out, make sure to bring them back a gift from your travels.RHS horticultural adviser Caroline Mazzey suggests moving your pots closer together in one place.
“Also, if you have got someone coming in, it’s such a reduced watering task to water pots which are close together – and keep them close to your water source like a water butt, if you can.” If you can move them into partial shade, that would also reduce evaporation, she adds.. Cut off buds and flowers which are currently blooming so they will have produced new flowers on your return.
“If you’re thinking of sowing seeds or planting a new plant, that’s a pretty chancy thing to do just before you go away. You should try to get your plants well established before you go or plant when you get back,” says Caroline.Take down hanging baskets and place them by the rest of your plants, in the shade at ground level. Alternatively, you can put them in a washing up bowl half-filled with water, so just the bottom of the liner is resting on the water.
It can “buy a little time" if your pots are on a saucer, so you get a shallow reservoir of water, says Caroline. But it must be shallow, not a bucket.“There’s a case for not wasting your time or water on a no-hoper,” says Caroline. If your bedding plants look like hay and seem to have run their course, put them in the compost bin and start again.Preparing quick cropping veggies for your absence is not dissimilar to trimming your flowering plants to encourage later blooms.
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