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Welcome to our first ever Romford edition. We will be Publishing our Handy Local Mag every month Throughout the Romford, Hornchurch, Cranham & Upminster area’s. Our aim is to bring Money saving offers to our readers from your Local Businesses. Inside every edition we will also have interesting articles, Prize Quizzes, Sudoku’s, Recipe’s and other interesting stuff. It’s a handy mag so keep it on the side or by the telephone you never know when you may need that plumber ect.

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The dark nights are drawing in so don’t forget to put your clocks back 1 hour on Sunday 30th October. Make sure you all stay safe and enjoy Halloween on Monday 31st October.

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Are you a keen Gardener ? Sharon Longshaw has kindly shared her knowledge & passion for gardening on page 2.

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Ladies Quiz

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We have a Nutty Toffee Apple recipe for you to try on page 6.

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Goodbye to Summer As we say goodbye to summer and move in to autumn, it’s time to get busy in the garden Time spent now on a good clear up can help prevent disease from taking hold. My worry for this year is that after the wet summer and warm September that plant mildew might take hold, dealing with any problems now will save heartache in the spring.

Lift all your summer bedding and move it to the composter, if you plan to save any seeds produced, now is the time to nip them off, store them in well labelled envelopes and keep them dry. Cut back summer flowering shrubs if you have not already done so. Remove dead limbs and prune back by as much as a third if required, the thing we don’t want to do is to leave it until the frosts have started as the frost can get in to fresh cuts and cause blackening and ultimately death to less established plants.

by Sharon Longshaw

Autumn is also a great time for dealing with tired looking lawns, reduce the frequency of cutting and knock it up a notch so that you are not cropping too closely. A dressing of Weed & Feed will do wonders if applied correctly, please follow the manufacturer’s instructions carefully, using too much will scorch your grass as well as kill the weeds. After approximately 2 weeks rake out dead weeds and moss and re-seed bald patches. If seeding a large area I suggest using something as a bird deterrent, I use old CD’s on string attached to garden canes or cut up a black plastic sack in to ribbons and attach the strips to canes.

Give borders a good weed and turn the soil, if you have shrubs that you would like to move now is a very good time to get this job done, they will be rebidded in by spring so this should not disturb the flowering pattern. With your soil weed free and turned planting spring flowering bulbs is made easy, choose Snowdrops, Crocus, Daffodils and Tulips, as a rule of thumb bulbs should be planted at around 2.5 times their own depth in free draining soil, for the best effect plant bulbs in clumps approximately 3 inches apart.

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