General

• Sow tender bedding plants and vegetables (see below) in a heated propagator or in trays on a warm windowsill or greenhouse.
   
• Select seeds and buy from  Dobies   Suttons Seeds   Thompson & Morgan
   
• Order and prepare Raised Bedsfor growing vegetables and flowers.
   
• Plant Potatoes.
   
• Plant perennial herbs such as marjoram, mint, rosemary and sage.
   
• Lift and divide congested clumps of perennials.
   
• Plant out bulbs grown for indoor use which have finished flowering.
   
• Prune tender climbers and wall shrubs if they show strong growth.
   
• Remove winter protection from containers later in the month when the risk of hard frost has gone, and top-dress or replant overgrown or pot-bound plants adding a slow-release fertiliser.
   
• Cut off dead flower spikes from summer-flowering heathers and prune young tree heathers.
   
• Apply a spring fertiliser to established lawns once they are actively growing and cut grass when it is about 8 cm (3 in) high.
   
• Prune spring-flowering shrubs over three years old as they finish flowering. Sow and plant out vegetables including beetroot,broad beans, carrots, celeriac, kohlrabi, onions, peas, spinach, swedes and turnips.
   
• Sow seeds of tomatoes in a heated propagator or on a warm windowsill to grow on outdoors when all danger of frost is over.
   
• Mulch beds and borders while the soil is moist to reduce the need for watering and to keep down weeds.
   
• Sow Green Manure seeds - phacelia, buckwheat, red clover, lupins, mustard, winter tares and trefoil.

Greenhouse

• Now is a good to select a greenhouse to make full use of it over the coming year to grow and harvest fruit and vegetables. Buy also from Greenhouses Direct.
   
• Sow seeds:-
• tomatoes
   
• Bedding plants such as African marigolds, petunias, lobelia and antirrhinums.
• Begonias and Pelargoniums.
• Quick-growing perennials.