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THE POTTING BENCH · A MONTHLY LETTER

What to sow, split and cut back this month.

One email from Knotgrass Nursery on the first Friday of the month, written by whoever is on the potting bench that week. Jobs for the garden, what has just flowered in the polytunnels, and the plants we have grown too many of.
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No offers, only plants
SAMPLE ISSUE
No. 41

The Potting Bench

October
Lift the dahlias after the first frost blackens the leaves, not a week before.
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Sow sweet peas in root trainers now for flowers in early June.
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Divide asters and heleniums while the soil still holds some warmth.
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Just potted: forty trays of hardy cyclamen, £4.50 each or five for £20.
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