- Quick to grow salad crops which can still be planted progressively include lettuce (loose leaf and cos); radishes; tatsoi (a dark green rosette shape Japanese cabbage); spring onions; Chinese greens and baby carrots.
- Use sticky yellow traps to catch whitefly in confined spaces of greenhouses where you prefer not to use chemicals. Ants can be discouraged from herding aphids on trees with strips of barrier glue around the trunk.
- Prepare a trench for some autumn sweet peas; new ground should be dug to at least a spades depth and plenty of compost and well rotted manure incorporated. Return the topsoil, add a dressing of garden lime and leave the ground to settle before sowing.
- Earwigs eat holes in the petals of many flowers including dahlias. Small rolls of cardboard filled with damp grass or leaves will offer them a hiding place during the day. Inspect daily and shake into a bucket of hot water.
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