Time for a bit of maintenance

Our expert plantsman Andrew gives his top tips on jobs to do in the garden and indoors this month.  

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Check up on your houseplants and keep them in tip-top condition and they’ll continue to give you a colourful display for ages.

Make sure all plants are well watered when needed but make sure you don’t overdo it.

Flowering houseplants should be dead-headed regularly and given a weekly to fortnightly feed with a flowering houseplant fertiliser.

Foliage plants need regular hand misting or standing on a saucer of damp pebbles to maintain humidity around the leaves.

Temperatures indoors are perfect for pests and diseases to thrive. Keep a close eye on plants in the house, greenhouse or conservatory for whitefly, red spider mite, aphids, scale insects and mealybug.

Grey mould can be a problem in the greenhouse, so keep watering to a minimum, avoid splashing water about and ventilate whenever the weather conditions allow.

Tidying up outdoors and removing any dead plant debris will take away the hiding places for various insect pests.