Gardening Tips for April

This is the interesting month, when seeds sown so patiently last month or earlier start to show their little heads. You can almost watch them grow day by day.  Then when they are a good size, pot them on, giving each the best start in life.

  1. Shrubs you didn’t get a chance to prune in March should be pruned now, i.e., shrub roses, buddleia, dogwoods, willows, cotinus and after flowering, forsythia.
  2. Remove the faded flowers of pansies and primulas.
  3. Plant Dahlia tubers outside at least 10 cm deep.

stourpaine.info | Stourpaine Community Services

Stourpaine

We are pleased to announce a new website page stourpaine.info | Stourpaine Community Services listing a large number of service providers for our community.

Typically, an image, and the title above it, opens a map of all the related services in Dorset; the detail under the image opens the particulars of the service.

Shaston Road – Pothole

DSC00839I am pleased to advise that DCC repaired this pothole on 24 December 2012 before lunchtime! Be careful on Shaston Road as there is a deepening pothole, which has water coming out of it and is getting worse...DSC00840

Heating Oil Update

We previously listed The Blandford Forum, Durweston & Stourpaine Heating Oil Club in our http://www.stourpaine.info/businesses.htm Businesses page. We listed it as CPL Petroleum have been quoting 75p per litre recently.

Here is an urgent piece of information from them:

“We have agreed with a local supplier a rate of £0.6150 pence per litre plus 5% vat for orders of 500 litres or more in all DT postcodes regardless of club level. This rate is valid for orders placed and paid for by 8.00am Wed Morning (12th December). Delivery will be within 14 days! Please note suppliers have asked us to stick to the cut off time due to current levels of demand and the supplier DOES charge for the use of a credit card. Our next order by date will be the 6th January 2013 after this order. “

www.oil-club.co.uk, Customer Service, The Oil Club Limited, Lower Ground Floor, 145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PY