Lodsworth & District Garden Club

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The Lodsworth & District Garden Club

is for everyone interested in plants and gardening.

You are very welcome to join us no matter what type of garden

you have, be it large or small, established or new, a conservatory,

an allotment, a windowbox or pot plants on the patio. We want

to encourage interest in all types of gardening in our community, providing opportunities for our members to share gardening experience and increasing knowledge of plants and gardens.

We welcome new members to join the Lodsworth & District

Garden Club; the annual subscription is only £5 for individual members or £7.50 for families. Membership benefits include subsidised entry to our talks, workshops and visits, with discount

from a wide variety of local horticultural suppliers.

Please look at our contact page for details of becoming

a member of the LDGC and a full list of benefits.

We look forward to welcoming you!

RHS Advice for August

August is usually one of the hottest months of the year - making watering essential. Try to use grey water wherever possible, especially as water butts may be running low. Take the time to prune Wisteria and summer-flowering shrubs such as lavender once they've finished flowering.

1 Prune Wisteria

2 Don’t delay summer pruning fruits trained as restricted forms

3 Deadhead flowering plants regularly

4 Watering- particularly containers,and new plants, preferably with grey recycled water or stored rainwater

5 Collect seed from garden plants

6 Harvest sweetcorn and other vegetables as they become ready

7 Continue cutting out old fruited canes on raspberries

8 Lift and pot up rooted strawberry runners

9 Keep ponds and water features topped up

10 Feed the soil with green manures

Find out more on the RHS website