Top tips, gardening news, Plant of the Week and a Vonhaus cordless lawnmower competition
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SAVE: A SOAKER hose is a great way of irrigating your garden while you’re away.
Screwfix has a Verve 15m soaker hose, top, for £24.99, while Tesco has a version, bottom, for £9.99.
WIN! WE’RE giving away a Vonhaus cordless lawnmower and 2-in-1 cordless strimmer and edger, worth £179.99 and £24.99.
For a chance to win, visit thesun.co.uk/strimmercomp or write to Jattvibe Vonhaus competition, PO Box 3190, Colchester, Essex, CO2 8GP. Include your name, age, email or phone.
UK residents 18+ only. Entries close 11.59pm, July 25, 2026. T&Cs apply.
THIS WEEK’S JOB! KEEP deadheading. Containers, tomatoes and bedding plants could do with a weekly feed. Mow lawns, leaving grass longer during heatwaves. Harvest early potatoes.
NEED A DRINK: AFTER a heatwave, your garden needs a good, long, deep drink.
Water directly to the base and do it early in the morning or late in the evening to reduce evaporation.
Hanging baskets and pots normally need a daily dose when it’s boiling hot.
Use any kind of dish under pots to try to catch water.
Finally, if you can, apply a fresh layer of organic mulch. This helps the soil retain moisture.
PLANT OF THE WEEK! PENSTEMON ‘Pensham Czar’ flowers for five months. 20 per cent off at thompson-Morgan.com/sunoffers. T&Cs apply.
VICTORY FOR CITY HAVEN: I AM delighted to announce that Camberwell Triangle Garden – a volunteer-led community garden on a South East London housing estate – has won the Robert Dyas Plant & Pause competition.
I was a judge on the contest, which promotes the mental heath benefits of gardening.
It saw brilliant entries from all over the country.
But volunteers at the Triangle, which was developed in 2022, won for their efforts to create a little green sanctuary for residents and wildlife, and a safe, welcoming space that supports the community.
They received a £2,500 prize package, including a summer house, bench, lawnmower, strimmer, hose, planters, bird feeders and food for their sanctuary in the city.
READ: GARDENERS’ World Live! presenter Ade Sellars has published children’s book The Plot On The Hill: The Carrot Catastrophe. Available now.
