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Diary week nineteen
Week nineteen May 6th - May 13th
Stake gladioli. Water trees and shrubs planted out earlier in the year. Water clematis. Put straw under strawberries. Keep hoeing. Marrows, pumpkins, courgettes, and ridge cucumbers should all be gently hardening off and a well manured site prepared for planting out in the next two weeks. Cover them with cloches if you plant them out now. Plant out sweet corn plants six inches apart thinning to a foot in rows two feet apart in square blocks. Sweetcorn require a well fertilised soil. Plant out sweet peppers under protection. Sow main crop peas and carrots. Sow climbing French beans 'Blue Lake'. Sow the last crop of 'Green Winsor' broad beans.
May 12th 1999, 2000, 2002
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