The forward-thinking strawberry grower will have taken the opportunity to select runners from a row of plants to peg down as new plants for the future. Now is the time to turn your investment into capital. Cultivate a piece of open ground, working in a dressing of fish, blood and bone, consolidate the earth and set a tight line. With a trowel, line the young plants out 1ft apart. They are fiddly plants to weed, so one option is to spread a landscape fabric over the soil after cultivation, then cut crosses through at intervals and plant into them.
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Can't you hear me S.O.S? Our treasured native dog breeds are at risk of extinctionDo you know your Kerry blue terrier from your Lancashire heeler? A simple lack of publicity is often to blame for some of the UK's native dog breeds flying dangerously low under-the-radar.
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'There are architects and architects, but only one ARCHITECT': Sir Edwin Lutyens and the wartime Chancellor who helped launch his stellar careerClive Aslet explores the relationship between Sir Edwin Lutyens and perhaps his most important private client, the politician and financier Reginald McKenna.
