{"id":8758,"date":"2010-10-22T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8758"},"modified":"2012-07-27T00:46:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T07:46:58","slug":"bargain-hunt-gardening-by-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/bargain-hunt-gardening-by-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Bargain Hunt Gardening Month by Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Iris in rows by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4583699454\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4583699454_3ea473bc13.jpg\" alt=\"Iris in rows\" width=\"408\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flag Iris all grown as cuttings from one large overgrown host plant<\/p>\n<p><strong>January<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check around the garden for ripe seeds to collect and dry<\/li>\n<li>Start sowing perennials on a windowsill<\/li>\n<li>Check out garden centre sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>February<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep sowing seeds<\/li>\n<li>Divide perennials to get more and better plants.<\/li>\n<li>Coppice Hazel twigs or other branches to use as supports. They look more natural than brown canes and are free.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>March<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Plant out hardy perennials under cloches to save indoor space and heating costs<\/li>\n<li>Look for free brochures on Open Gardens to visit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Buy bedding plants such as Fucshi, Verbena and Felicia. Take up to 10 cuttings from each plant. By June you will have a hanging basket full.<\/li>\n<li>Sow last years collected annual seeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>May<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take cuttings from your garden shrubs.<\/li>\n<li>Visit other gardens and parks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"French lavender for cuttings by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4607088304\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1259\/4607088304_0edfdbb352.jpg\" alt=\"French lavender\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>June<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Look out for bedding plant sales at your garden centre<\/li>\n<li>Swap plants locally<\/li>\n<li>Sow winter ornamental cabbages and pansies from cheap supermarket seed packets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>July<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Check for bargains at local fetes and plant sales.<\/li>\n<li>Attend your local shows and join horticultural societies for seeds and swaps.<\/li>\n<li>Pot up Strawberry plant runners to get more plants. When rooted sever from the host plant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>August<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Take more cuttings of plants you enjoyed in summer.<\/li>\n<li>Root cuttings of Lupins and Oriental poppies can increase your plant stock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Oriental Poppy by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4607087156\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4027\/4607087156_77fe0768fb.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Collect seed from favourite plants in old envelopes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>September<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Protect bulbs, tubers and plants for next year. Dahlias,<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6769\"> Begonias<\/a> and geraniums can be saved in  a frost free area.<\/li>\n<li>Pick wild blackberries if you missed the bilberries in August.<\/li>\n<li>Dry herbs to use through winter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>October<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Look out for end of season sales and cheap shrubs from garden centres.<\/li>\n<li>Pot some Hyacinths to give as Christmas presents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4284879089\/\" title=\"Hyacinth by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4284879089_5006bab94b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hyacinth\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>November<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a good time to plant Tulips yet many shops have got them at big discounts as they get the stock ready for Xmas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>December<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask Father Christmas to buy you the garden present you covet.<\/li>\n<li>Look for good value <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/house-greenhouse-plants\/grow-colourful-gloxinia-as-houseplants\/\">Gloxinia<\/a> tubers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good value gardening tips for every month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}