- Move less hardy pot plants to shadier areas.
- Apply wetting agent to lawns and gardens and water in well.
- Continue dead heading flowers to encourage new flushes.
- Check reticulation watering days are in keeping with approved days.
- Shorten rose stem length when dead heading, to keep in check. Fertilise roses regularly.
- Newly planted seedlings must be kept damp.
- Use seaweed extracts regularly to address heat stress (soil drench or foliage spray).
- Tie up tall growing flowering annuals/perennials, sweet peas, foxgloves , Queen Anne’s Lace, Delphiniums, etc..
- Spray aphids with pyrethrum , as necessary.
- Watch for fungal problems such as powdery mildew and sooty mould. Apply lime sulphur or copper oxychloride.
