Greenhouse

• Sow seeds:-
  • peas and runner beans
  • tomatoes
  • sweetcorn
  • marrows
  • cucumbers
  • Bedding Plants such as African marigolds, petunias, lobelia and antirrhinums.
  • begoniasbegonias and bedding plants and Pelargoniums.
  • perennials.
     
• Remove the insulation from the greenhouse.
   
• Ventilate Cold Frame and the greenhouse whenever possible to encourage sturdy plant growth.
   
• Sow hardy annuals in a Cold Frame or unheated greenhouse.
   
• Make sure pots and seed trays with plants and seedlings in the greenhouse do not dry out.

Vegetables

• Sow broad beans, french beans, beetroot, leafbeet, broccoli, leeks, sea kale, peas, lettuce, cabbage, spinach, parsley, carrots, turnips, parsnips, radishes and spring onions.
   
• Fit collars around the stems of young cabbages, cauliflowers and Brussel sprouts to deter cabbage root fly.
   
• Earth up early potatoes.
   
• Plant asparagus, Jerusalem artichokes, onion sets and garlic.

Fruit

• Finish pruning and planting fruit bushes such as autumn-fruiting raspberries.
   
• Graft apples and pears.
   
• Continue greasebands until end of the month.
   
• Cover ground under pear trees with carpet mulch to prevent pear midges.
   
• If frosty, protect blossom with sacks or fleece.
   
• Inspect raspberry canes for signs of raspberry moth and other pests and diseases.
   
• Prune plum trees once they have started growing.

Flowers

• Start to sow hardy annuals directly into their flowering position.
   
• Plant summer-flowering bulbs such as acidanthera and tigridia.
   
• Apply rose fertiliser, gently hoeing it in around the plants.
   
• Grow begonias from tubers
   
• Grow and propagate dahlias from cuttings
   
• Create a spring arrangement
   
• Prune roses removing decaying old and thin, spindly wood.
   
• Take chrysanthemum cuttings.
   
• Remove shoots that have no live buds from summer-flowering clematis and cut back late-flowering clematis hard.
   
• Deadhead daffodils as they fade.
   
• Sow sweet peas directly into their flowering position.

Ponds

• Ensure the surface of ponds are kept clean by removing floating weeds and any slime algae.
   
• Clean out the pond if necessary.
   
• If present scoop out and collect mats of tiny-leaved duck weed and twirl hair-like blanket weed from the surface with a stick or garden cane.
   
• Put them in a heap on the edge of the pond overnight so any aquatic creatures can crawl back into the water. The next day add the heap to the compost heap.
   
• Put new aquatic plants in the pond either in the soil at the bottom or using special aquatic baskets.
   
• Oxygenate the pond with plants like Mash marigolds Palustris.
   
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