DEADHEADING

Prolong your summer flowering by cutting off any spent blooms, in a process known as deadheading. As their flowers begin to fade, your plants’ energy is focused on producing seeds for survival, however regular deadheading instead channels their energy back into producing more blooms. It’s botanical trickery of the most beautiful and bountiful kind. Meanwhile, in your homegrown vegetable patch, remove produce such as broccoli that’s set to flower – this process is called bolting – and replace it with summer crops such as tomatoes, lettuce and basil.

CUTTING FLOWERS FOR INDOORS MEANS MORE OUTDOORS.