Garden+Club+-+Spring

=Hooray for Spring!=
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Time to get to work and think about planting!

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Get the gardening gloves...
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Rake and hoe the soil to aerate it and break it up...
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Turn the soil and remove any weeds...
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Time to give our tunnel house a thorough cleaning in readiness for planting...
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Detergent helps to sterilize the tunnel house to get rid of pests and diseases...
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Last summer our strawberry plants sent off runners. These can be turned into new strawberry plants...
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We neaten the runners by cutting off any dead or damaged leaves
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There are lots more runners left, so we share them out to plant at home...
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Our vegetable patch is a shadow of its former summer self ...
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... but we still have winter lettuces and cabbages producing winter greens.
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Our peas have sprouted and we have made a climbing trellis out of bamboo canes. Our peas are 10cms high already!
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