July and August 2023 Hints and tips
As I write this in June, my garden is very dry. No rain for weeks. Hoeing is a sure way to make it rain! – that, and cleaning the windows! Still, the herbaceous border should be at its best – take a record of which plants need to be divided in the Autumn. Currants,...
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February Hints and Tips
Welcome to the start of the growing year, when seeds can be sown, potatoes prepared by chitting, and the first flowers: daffodils, snowdrops, primroses, winter aconites and pulmonarias show some colour. February involves pruning many late flowering shrubs to encourage...
Summer Show 2021 Report
The 2021 Church Crookham Garden Society Summer Show was a success.
Summer Show 21st August
CHURCH CROOKHAM GARDEN SOCIETY There was no show in 2020, but we very much hope to run one this year. ANNUAL SHOW 2021 SATURDAY 21st AUGUST CROOKHAM MEMORIAL HALL, CHURCH CROOKHAM New members and show visitors welcome Admission Free Click here for the Show schedule...
July 2021 gardening tips
As I write this, in June, my garden is about three weeks behind how it was last year. The weather is beyond prediction for the next two months. If it turns hot and dry, then stop mowing but keep hoeing. Hoeing is a sure way to make it rain! – that, and...
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June Gardening Hints and Tips
We have had a late Spring this year (2021), with drought and frost holding plants back. I note that last year, at this time, I remarked on the good set of apples and pears; whereas, this year, the apple blossom is barely out yet. I did spot a woodpecker (spotted)...
April Gardening Tips
We wait, with keen anticipation, through January and February, the blooming of daffodils, the signals of Spring. First, the dwarf varieties like Narcissus jonquilla and bulbocodium and then the full-sized plants. All too soon, by April, we are dead- heading spent...
February Gardening Tips
Welcome to the start of the growing year, when seeds can be sown, potatoes prepared by chitting and the first flowers: daffodils, snowdrops, primroses, winter aconites and pulmonarias show some colour. February involves pruning many late flowering shrubs to encourage...
January Hints and Tips
January Hints and Tips
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A vibrant garden society active in Fleet and Church Crookham, Hampshire. We hold several annual events and shows and run a comprehensively stocked stores hut with discounts for members.
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