JANUARY

• Remember to continue to feed the birds
• Put slow release fertilisers on the soil around the base of fruit trees
• Plant bare rooted shrubs with planting mixture
• Clean the greenhouse and pots with Jeyes Fluid
• Protect tender plants with fleece
• Keep an area of pond ice free in order that your fish can breathe

 FEBRUARY

• Buy your early spring flowers now
• Set out summer flowering bulbs
• Sow summer bedding in a heated greenhouse
• Sow vegetable seeds under cloches
• Plant bare rooted trees, shrubs and hedging
• Start to prune roses and clematis
• Feed mature trees and shrubs
• Sow vegetable seeds
• Start to plan any landscape gardening projects

 MARCH

• Prune your roses and clematis
• Give your lawn its first cut, with blades high
• Sow seeds for summer bedding in the greenhouse or on a warm, bright windowsill
• Sow seeds for broccoli, cabbage, parsnips and spinach if conditions outside are suitable
• Plant out onion sets and shallots
• Put seed potatoes in a cool light position to sprout
• Plant early potato varieties from the end on the month