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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Jun 23, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for helping gardens deal with all the recent downpours.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Jul 07, 2019

British gardener Nigel Colborn explains how this is the month for soft cuttings.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Jul 21, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared his advice on how readers can increase their production of strawberries.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for summer pruning wisteria. He says pruning now will result in bigger and better flowers next spring.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Sep 01, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for managing ponds this season. He advises removing dying vegetation to improve conditions.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Sep 15, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice on gardening now to plan for spring.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Sep 29, 2019

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shares his advice on how to prepare your plants for the winter.




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Nigel Colborn says that flowers last longer in Autumn as he lists this week's essential garden jobs

Nigel Colborn has shared his advice on gardening this week. He said homeowners can plant 'anything hardy' and should keep dead-heading dahlias so that they stay in flower until the first frost.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Oct 13, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for keeping perennials young and healthy. The British gardening expert recommends digging up mature plants and gently shaking soil from the roots.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week  - Oct 20, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for re-planting rhubarb to boost production. The British gardening expert recommends re-planting baby rhubarb slips in a new piece of ground.




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No room to grow pumpkins? Monty Don has found an aternative that's been thriving in his garden 

British gardening expert Monty Don has shared his advice for growing squash. He advises those who have sandy or chalk soil, or live in an area of low rainfall to use alot of compost or manure.




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Nigel Colborn says plant pumpkins for their tasty flesh not just for jack-o'-lanterns 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn said that the best part of the pumpkin is its nutritious flesh which usually gets thrown out with the seeds.




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Fabulous ferns will thrive in your garden's dark and damp corners, says Monty Don

Tree ferns, which are easy to transfer because most of the roots are in the stem, are excellent plants to put in your garden's damp and dark places. Monty Don also said that they are easy to move.




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Nigel Colborn says plant clematis with roses for summer colour

Nigel Colborn said that now is a great time for planting clematis as the soils have not fallen to winter temperatures, and after so much rain there's plenty of moisture.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week - Nov 10, 2019

Nigel Colborn shared advice for taking root cuttings to produce new plants. The British gardening expert recommends removing thicker roots and re-planting.




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MONTY DON solves some thorny conundrums sent in by readers

British gardening expert Monty Don answers readers' pressing problems and discusses Britain's newest bee species you might spot buzzing around your flower beds.




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Nigel Colborn says a gentle mow of the grass is necessary before winter

Nigel Colborn has shared his advice on gardening this week. He suggest giving your lawn one final cut, as grass may have kept growing in wet and mild weather.




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The point of poinsettia: Nigel Colborn says they look jolly in winter

Nigel Colborn has shared his advice on gardening this week.




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Santa goes green! Nigel Colborn reveals the best gifts for gardeners this Christmas 

Nigel Colborn picked out a selection of the best gifts for green-fingered loved ones this Christmas. British gardening expert suggests a traditional gardening trug and sturdy carbon-steel shears.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for thriving wisteria this summer. The British gardening expert recommends shortening stumps this month to prevent emerging leaves from hiding flowers.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for growing Moth Orchid's, including purchasing better quality soil than what is already in the plant pot.




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California dreaming: On a dreary grey winter's day, why not plan for some summer colour? 

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for a colourful garden this summer. British gardening expert suggests making use of heated greenhouses.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

Nigel Colborn shares his advice for using lilies as enchanting patio pot plants. The British gardening expert recommends keeping the plaint in moist compost with access to sunlight.




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The armchair approach: Nigel Colborn says with a border of succulents, you can sit back

Nigel Colborn has shared his advice on gardening this week. He says succulents can usually shrug off anything the British summer can throw at them. Pictured, Aeonium Zwartkop.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for planting sweet peas, pruning shrubs and trimming violas this week.




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Deborah Meaden tells how turning her 16-acre Somerset property over to nature reaped rich rewards

Deborah Meaden's most gratifying investment has been the rewilding of her Somerset home, a former farmhouse surrounded by 26 acres, once owned by prime minister William Pitt the Elder.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's top tips for coping with the deluge

Nigel Colborn claims that months of excessive rain nationwide has made gardens unworkable. British gardening expert warns against sowing outdoors until conditions are suitable.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for the garden this week 

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn, shares his advice for increasing the number of snowdrop clumps in your garden.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

Nigel Coleborn shares his advice for sowing courgette seeds and pruning your clematis. The gardening expert also named the plant of the week as the Dutch Flower Record.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for removing last summer's shoots to ground level. He also answered a question on a young Japanese cherry tree.




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Nature's pick-me-up: Nigel Colborn says gardening is the perfect medicine

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn says how gardening is the perfect medicine in uncertain times such as the coronavirus outbreak. He said people should finish overdue winter tasks.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

Nigel Colborn shared his advice for nurturing ponds as the days become warmer. The British gardening expert advises removing dead or damaged stems and looking out for weeds.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for managing this year's near-hardy perennials. He advises pruning away last year's growth.




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Action plan: Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for people growing their own food in their gardens during the coronavirus lockdown.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

Now is the time to deal with winter jasmine. Though spectacularly beautiful with cheerful yellow flowers from November to March, this shrub is ferociously invasive.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week 

Camellias are giving a wonderful show this year, but it will soon be over. After flowering has finished, give each shrub a vigorous shake to dislodge any dead blooms.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

This is a good weekend to sow pumpkin, gourd, courgette or marrow seeds directly outdoors. And it’s by no means too late to sow turnips, beetroot, runner beans, spinach or chard.




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Nigel Colborn's essential jobs for your garden this week

This is a good time to refresh compost if you grow camellias or azaleas in containers. Ericaceous compost loses acidity — especially when hard water is used.




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South Sudan will not be as prepared as Uganda to tackle Ebola, experts warn 

South Sudan is the 'most vulnerable' of the countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo, experts said, where 1,522 people have died of Ebola since the outbreak began in August.




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Ebola outbreak in the Congo 'should be a global emergency' warns Rory Stewart

The MP said the outbreak is 'very dangerous' after a two-day visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Health officials have rejected proposals to declare a global emergency three times.




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US government shuts down military lab studying Ebola and the plague over safety fears

Scientists at Fort Detrick, Maryland, study Ebola, the plague (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) and rabbit fever (caused by the bacterium tularemia).




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FDA warns Purell to STOP claiming its hand sanitizer can kill flu and Ebola 

Food and Drug Administration officials hit out at Purell's maker GOJO with a warning letter earlier this month, demanding that the company take down false claims it prevents flu.




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California woman tells of husband diagnosed with coronavirus just a day after they were evacuated

Jeri Seratti-Goldman, of Santa Clarita, California, says her husband, Carl Goldman, was diagnosed with coronavirus after they were evacuated from the quarantined cruise ship in Japan.




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Coronavirus 'could be 1,000 times more infectious than SARS, scientists warn

Researchers from Nankai University in Tianjin, northern China have discovered the way coronavirus binds to cells in the human body is akin to far more aggressive diseases like HIV.




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Joe Biden turns podcaster from his social-isolation basement

Former Vice President Joe Biden debuted his new podcast from his Delaware home, interviewing former White House aide Ron Klain, who has bashed the Trump administration's coronavirus response.




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How straight-talking Dr. Anthony Fauci earned nation's trust during coronavirus outbreak

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH, has emerged as the most trusted public official during the coronavirus outbreak.




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Melinda Gates warns 'coronavirus is not a once in a lifetime pandemic'

Melinda Gates says the world will be permanently changed by the coronavirus. Gates said she believes it will take 18 months for a vaccine to become available.




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Oscar Pistorius is innocent, says journalist Mark Williams-Thomas

Mark Williams-Thomas said he believes the athlete's account that he shot Reeva Steenkamp dead at his Pretoria home after mistaking her for a burglar.




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Caterham 'just like POOR Oscar Pistorius', says F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone

Basket case Caterham will go to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after raising enough funds through their ‘crowdfunding’ scheme, a move that has not been met with joy by Bernie Ecclestone.




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Oscar Pistorius 'lost it' when he learned murder acquittal would be appealed

A fellow prisoner at the Kgosi Mampuru II jail in Pretoria said the double-amputee athlete 'got up and stomped' after hearing the ruling on the radio, adding that he was p***** off.'