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It's the hottest part of the year, so you need to keep on top of watering your plants to make the most of it. Water at the beginning or end of the day to stop it evaporating in the heat and give it time to soak in.

Pot up any strawberry runners to get free plants!
If you want an easy way to get some extra strawberry plants, just look for any which have sent out runners - these are shoots from the main plant which have a miniature plant on the end. You can snip them off, pot them up and then plant them out next year.

Harvest veg when ready
With most vegetables, the more you pick them, the more they grow (especially beans and courgettes!) so keep picking and freeze any you can't use now. Pick vegetables like sweetcorn on sunny days for the best flavour.

Feed your tubs and containers
To keep your hanging baskets or containers looking great, give them a dose of liquid tomato feed. This can even perk up tired looking border plants.

Deadhead flowering plants
Use a sharp pair of secatuers to snip off flowers which are past their best on shrubs like roses. This means the plant will stay healthy and put its energy into producing more flowers.

Give hedges a trim
Give any hedges a tidy up now as they will stop growing once the weather gets colder. Just watch out for any nesting birds before you get stuck in with the hedge trimmer!

Regularly water your plants
Even if it doesn't seem that hot, plants can easily dry out at this time of year. Watch out for trees and shrubs becoming drought stressed and give them a good soaking. Try to use recycled or rain water where you can.

Cut the lawn often
Keep your lawn healthy by cutting it often - try to avoid cutting it too short or cutting it in full sun as it can go brown or dry out.

Check fruit crops
With a bit of luck your fruit trees should be carrying a good crop, but if all those fruit get to full size the weight can damage the branches. Pull off any fruit which is damaged, diseased or look unusually small to reduce the weight or the branches. You may need to remove more fruit to reduce the weight further - it seems a shame, but is better than damaging the tree in the long run.

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You can save a lot of money by recycling items you would otherwise throw away and using them in your garden. Instead of paying $10-20 or more for a large pot, throw down an old tire and fill it with soil. This article lists seven things you can recycle for use in your flower or vegetable garden.

Don't throw away that old tote bag! You can use it in your garden. Save the earth and a whole bunch of money too by recycling common household items to use in your garden. From milk jugs to old tires to 2 liter soda bottles, here are seven things you can recycle to use in your garden.

Milk Jugs: Plastic milk jugs have many uses in the garden. You can cut the tops off to use them as planters for small plants such as herbs or cut the bottoms off to make miniature greenhouses that you can place over plants when there is danger of frost. You can even cut them up to make plastic plant labels to identify your plants.

Old tires: You can use old tires as raised beds for flower or vegetable gardening. For plants that require deep soil, such as carrots, try stacking two tires on top of each other. Tires are great for growing potatoes because you can throw another tire on top as the potato plants grow and fill it up with more soil. This makes it easier to harvest the potatoes in the fall because the potatoes will be in the tires, not in the ground. Just remove the tires to get to the potatoes.

Tote Bags: Old tote bags and cheap reusable shopping bags can be used as hanging planters to make use of wall space. This is great for people who don't have a lot of land. You can fill the bags with potting soil and hang them on a fence or wall. Since they hold quite a bit of soil, they can even be used with larger plants, such as tomatoes.

Cement Blocks: Discarded cement blocks can be used to build raised beds, create an attractive vertical garden, or keep your compost contained. Even new, you can often get concrete blocks for around $1 each or a little more. However, if you watch Craigslist, you can sometimes pick up used blocks for free.

Bricks: Sometimes you can find people giving away old bricks too. These are great for creating borders around the edges of your flower or vegetable plots. You can also use them to pave your garden paths. Paved paths keep weeds and grass from growing between beds, eliminating the need for mowing.

Tin Cans: Remove both the tops and bottoms of tin cans, set them on a try, and fill them up with potting soil. Use them to start your seedlings indoors. You can fill the trays with water to water the plants from the bottom. When you're ready to transplant, you can plant the entire can or gently tap the can to knock the dirt loose and slide the plant out.

Foam Meat Trays: Save the foam trays you get from the supermarket when you buy chicken, beef or pork. Wash them up and use them as trays underneath the tin cans you start your seeds in.

Use Your Imagination

There are a lot more ways to recycle everyday things to use in your garden. Before you throw something in the trash, think about how you might be able to use it. Would it make a good pot? Could you use it to stake your plants? Could it be composted or used to make a garden bed? Use your imagination to think of creative ways to recycle the things you would normally throw away.

If you are looking for some more information on this container gardening ideas check out best organic gardening and see if it's right for your gardening needs!

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The clientele: this can be a very good way of choosing the best specialist. The kind of people or companies that the specialist has managed to help in eradicating the knotweed will tell you his level of professionalism as well as the kind of services he has potential of offering you. It is best that you settle for a specialist who will offer all knotweed solutions for any kind of a situation on site.

Skills and training: they are the most important when it comes to dealing with the notorious Japanese knotweed. A specialist who is fully trained and has an extensive knowledge on the weed and the eradication solutions will always be in a better position to handle your case and offer permanent solutions. When looking at the qualification, you can also look at the certification of your specialist in relation to offering the knotweed eradication services.

Working environment: the eradication of the Japanese knotweed is very sensitive and your specialist therefore needs to put health and safety first during the entire process. It is important that a risk assessment is undertaken and the best solutions settled without posing any danger to the specialist or the people within the infected site. A good specialist will come with insurance for public liability and also for property damage for third parties. Generally, the working environment should be as safe as it is possible.

Environment sustainability: a good specialist will offer the best eradication solutions without causing any kind of damage to the environment. He or she should have measures put in place to ensure that whatever solution he offers to your infected site is sustainable and does not end up damaging the environment or causing further spread of the weed to other areas. This is an aspect that is of great importance and it revolves around the eradication method, the products and equipment used during the process.

The cost: your Japanese knotweed specialist should offer permanent solutions at affordable rates. However, it is important to remember that the cost of the process could be determined by the control or eradication method settled for and one that is best for your site situation. You should ensure that your specialist has the ability of giving you value for the money you spend on the eradication project. After the assessment and quoting of the amount, you can decide to trust the specialist or continue with the search for the best.

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