Annual Gardening Tips

January

Plant Garlic cloves in pots ready to transplant later

Order seed potatoes

Prepare ground for asparagus

Plant fruit trees and canes

Remove fallen leaves from the borders

Cut down and compost the annuals

Take hardwood cuttings of shrubs and fruit trees.

February

Remove fallen leaves from borders

Cut down and compost the annuals

Take hardwood cutting of shrubs and fruit trees

Continue blanting bare-root Roses

Tidy beds

Plant bare-root Roses

Check the fruit stores for rotting fruit, or attacks by rodents

Plant fruit trees, fruit canes and fruit bushes.

March

Finish any digging

Force Rhubarb

Sow early crops under cloches

Warm soil using cloches

Prune Apple trees and other hardy fruit trees

Plant container grown trees and mulch well

Dig in manure around the base of fruit trees

Prepare Strawberry beds.

April

Finish any digging

Warm soil using cloches or polythene

If not already done, prune Rasberry canes to 6"

Plant fruit trees, fruit canes and fruit bushes

Prepare Strawberry beds

Tidy up the lawn. Re-sow patches that look bare/damaged.