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Baristas wanted for an immediate start.

March is such an exciting month! There are seeds to sow, new plants to choose, and spring to enjoy. Here are a few of the jobs you can get on with this month:

General tasks:

• Get flower beds ready for the year ahead by scattering general fertiliser between plants and mulching with well-rotted manure or soil improver.
• Treat lawns for moss by applying moss killer, available from our garden centre here in Boyle and Lanesboro Road.
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The search is on for Ireland’s top amateur garden designers – and if you’ve got what it takes you could end up showcasing your talents on prime time TV!

Ireland's top amateur garden designers

RTE’s Super Garden is now in its ninth year and is looking for start-up landscapers, amateur gardeners or horticulture students to take part. The show follows five emerging garden designers as they compete for the honour of having their show garden exhib...

Prune summer flowering clematis now – those big, showy stars of the season which take your breath away scrambling up a trellis or twining romantically around a climbing rose.

Prune Clematis

By now just a big tangle of brown stems remains of last year’s growth. Leave these in place and you’ll just get a lot of flowers at the top of the plant, with an unsightly mass of bare stems at the base.

Keep your summer-flowering cle...

Install raised beds in the garden now and they’ll be primed and ready to plant once the season gets under way next month. Raised beds are great for vegetables but are also ideal for herbs and cut flowers.

Rasied Bed Gardening

They’re good for your plants, too. They hold all the nutrients in place, making the soil so rich you can really pack them to overflowing. And you’ll easily be able to reach into the centre without tre...