Gardening - jobs for the week ahead

The weather may have gone from one extreme to another, but there's still plenty to be getting on with in the garden this week:
By Dave Overend
Published 12th Jun 2020, 16:45 BST
If you pick sweet peas as soon as they flower it will encourage more blooms.If you pick sweet peas as soon as they flower it will encourage more blooms.
If you pick sweet peas as soon as they flower it will encourage more blooms.

Keep an eye out for white powdery mildew. Remove the affected parts and spray with a fungicide.

Look for aphids on the underside of leaves – rub them off by hand, spray with an insecticide, or use natural pest control such as lacewing larvae.

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Keep an eye out for scarlet lily beetles on your lilies - crush any you see. Check for sticky brown larvae on the underside of leaves.

Clip evergreen hedges.

Check plants in your greenhouse daily and water them if the soil is dry.

Turn compost in your bins every month to keep it aerated.

Pick sweet peas (pictured) as soon as they flower to encourage more blooms.

Dead-head your roses if they’re repeat-flowering types.

Dead-head and cut back oriental poppies after flowering.