Top Tips
Top tips and guidance from our members
Gardeners Calendar
Please send in your tips on what activities we should be undertaking each month.
July
(Bob) Time to take lower leaves of plants and half larger leaves this will send more energy to fruit Varieties
Red pear and San marsano resorted
Seasonal guide to sowing & growing vegetables
See this handy calendar by Mark Payne Landscaping.
When to prune
The following advice was taken from the BBC Gardeners World site - visit for detailed advice.
Pruning your plants properly can provide you with the best show of leaves, flowers, fruits and form, so it's useful to know which plants to cut back and when.
The basic rules of pruning rely on understanding your plants' growth cycle. Herbaceous perennials and most summer-flowering shrubs have the ability to produce shoots that will be topped with flowers during the course of a single growing season. By contrast, shrubs, trees and fruit bushes that bloom in winter or spring carry their flowers on shoots produced from older stems and branches made in previous years.
It's also worth remembering that cutting back woody plants when they're dormant will tend to promote leafy growth, while shortening vigorous growth in midsummer will keep shrubs and trees more compact and encourage flowering.
Nurseries and Garden Centres
Top End Farm Enterprises, (Club Member) Top Farm Bleasby Moor Road, Lissington, Lincoln, LN3 5AF Facebook | LinkedIn
Top Farm Enterprises is a small family run business renovating, restoring and replanting a previously productive fruit farm in Lincolnshire. Our vision is to provide locally grown organic fruit and vegetables to the community and local businesses, focusing on heritage and unusual fruit and vegetable varieties. By sensitively renovating the farm, we aim to restore the natural environment including trees and hedgerows to provide natural habitats for wildlife. This will also allow us to offer a range of educational and wellbeing experiences to a wide range of demographics, benefiting both physical and mental health of the community.
Scothern Nurseries and Cafe Dunholme Road, Scothern, LN2 2UD
Cherry Tree Garden Centre and Restaurant 2 Wragby Rd, Sudbrooke, Lincoln, LN2 2QU
Horncastle Garden Centre and Cafe Lincoln Road, Horncastle, Lincolnshire, LN9 5LY
Brigg Garden Centre and Restaurant Bigby High Road, Brigg, North East Lincolnshire, DN20 9HE
Downtown Garden Centre and Cafe Gonerby Moor, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 2AB
Mail order suppliers
Thompson & Morgan (Mail order)
J. Parkers (Mail Order)