Gardens Illustrated Magazine

LABOURS OF LOVE

Assuming you are not on holiday, August is the perfect month to continue the good work you started in July. Keep sowing, and I guarantee you will thank me for it later. This is also the time to order seed, such as (pot marigold, a great companion plant for repelling whitef ly from tomatoes and luring aphids away from beans) for sowing direct in early autumn, and to replant any rooted runners from your

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