The worms have spent some time thinking of pruning tasks in the garden for June this week. There’s quite a few to dos, like pruning your Wisteria. For cleaner cuts, it’s important to keep your secateurs oiled, clean and sharp, too. Follow our blog to get more daily gardening cartoons, ideas, daily tasks and tips of what you can do now in your #garden

The cartoon reads, When pruning Wisterias; Oil, clean and sharpen your secateurs to prevent disease and make a cleaner cut Two worms are looking at a pruned branch, Both worms have oil on their heads, one worm says, “ A perfectlyy clean cut” The other worm replies, “ If I was to be critical, perhaps a little too much oil.”

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The wrigglers are amateur gardeners, for advice from the experts on how to toughen up your plants for the great outdoors, try Gardener’s World – they know what they’re talking about!

How to grow Wisteria

I’ve read about pruning Wisteria at this time of year (June), and/or once the flowers have died back. It’s a good time to start pruning wisteria. Your aim is to create a strong framework of main stems covered with flowering spurs – these are the short, nobbly stems with little buds/leaves on them.

As with all pruning, start with the 3Ds – dead, diseased and damaged – and remove the offenders.

The Wrigglers have joined the #putpollinators first Campaign

Wild flower meadows flower for longer due to the diverse range of plants in them. That’s more flowers for you, and more food for the bees and insects. Plant one and join the Gardener’s World Put Pollinators First campaign – raising awareness of the decline of our pollinators @GWmagazine

Click to see our ‘Put Pollinators First’ page

Gardener’s world launched its #putpollinatorsfirst campaign, as part of their 30th Anniversary celebrations of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. See what you can do to play your part:

Join in the Gardener’s World team and pledge here

With a panel of pollinator experts, committed to helping bees and other pollinating insects to thrive, Dr Trevor Dines says, ” Since the 1930’s, over 97 percent of our wildflower meadows have been destroyed. That’s 7.5 million acres, gone. Now you can understand why our pollinators are in such trouble.”

There are 3 ideas:

Sow some pollinator meadow seeds

Create habitats for butterflies, moths and caterpillars

Make a cornfield nectar bar

By making a meadow, even on a small scale, we can provide a banquet for pollinators that’ll help them to thrive.

Here are some seed suppliers and links:

Dobies

Thomson and Morgan – how to sow wildflower seeds

RHS – How to grow a mini wild flower meadow