February
Jobs For February
Kitchen Garden
Sow early crops in your coldframe, ie radishes and turnips seeds
Prepare bean and celery trenches
Apply slow-acting fertilisers such as bonemeal to your vegetable plot
Buy seed potatoes and onion sets
Start chitting seed potatoes for early varieties
Start sowing appropriate vegetables in the heated greenhouse
Flower Garden
Take dahlia cuttings from tubers
Sow bedding plants in seed trays in heated greenhouse or on windowsill
Start pricking out early sown bedding plants
Ensure greenhouse glass is clean so that plants receive plenty of light
Tidy up rock gardens and apply fresh chippings of decorative aggregates where necessary
Start killing perennial weeds on paths and driveways
Purchase seeds and bulbs
Lawns
Brush off wormcasts
Now is the time to treat moss in the lawn with an appropriate mosskiller
Lay turf in mild areas providing the ground is not frozen or waterlogged
Gardening will be very much dependent on the weather in your area with the timings given as a guide only
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