Gardeners Calander - February
General Garden Care
- Put out food and water for birds
- Put up bird boxes
- Apply fertiliser to beds and borders
- Tool and machine maintanence
- Buy in compost and seed trays
Vegetables and Herbs
- Prepare seedbeds for planting
- Cover with cloches to warm up the soil
- Apply an organic fertiliser
- Lime areas for brassicas
- Harvest - Brussel sprouts, kale, leeks, parsnips, spinach, swedes, turnip, turnip tops, winter greens.
- Sow indoors - Onions, broad beans, carrot, cauliflower, lettuce, peas, radish, spinach, spring onions, summer cabbages, turnips.
- Start chitting early potatoes to plant out from march.
- Check on any forced chicory
- Sow outside under cloches- lettuce, radish, salad onions, peas, broad beans, beetroot, summer cabbage, spinach
- Plant outside - Shallots, Jerusalem Artichoke
- Prepare trenches for runner beans
- Prepare a bed for asparagus
- Feed spring cabbages
- Take root cuttings of mint
- Top dress any herbs in containers
Perennials
- Finish weeding and digging
- Feed the borders with fertiliser
- Take root cuttings from acanthus, japanese anemones, nepeta, oriental poppies, phlox, primula and verbascum.
- Start off Dahlia Tubers
Annuals and Bedding
- Pot on any seedlings sown last month
- Sow hardy annuals
- Continue deadheading winter pansies
- Sow sweet peas outside in southern sheltered areas
- Pot on sweet peas sown last autumn and pinch out the growing tip
Trees and Shrubs
- Plant out bare rooted trees
- Move any diciduous shrubs
- Prune and train trees and shrubs
- Feed and mulch after pruning
- trim winter flowering heathers after flowering
- Brush off any snow from hedges to prevent splaying
- Tie in any splayed branches
- Prune overgrown or mishappen hedges
Fruit
- Check stored fruit for rot
- Feed all the fruit
- Sprinkle sulphate of potash around fruit trees
- Mulch the base of fruit trees
- Check ties and stakes
- Finish spraying with tar oil winter wash
- Finish winter pruning and training
- Prune autumn fruiting raspberries
- Plant bare rooted trees and bushes
- Plant bare rooted fruit canes
- Force rhubarb
- Cloche strawberries for an early harvest
Under Glass
- Start off Dahlia Tubers
- Take cuttings from Fuchsias
- Prune tender perrenials brought in for the winter
- Prick out seedlings
- Order plug plants
- Sow hardy annuals
- Sow early veg crops
Lawns
- Avoid walking on frozen grass
- Try not to walk on any naturalised bulbs as they emerge
- Dig out lawn weeds
- Lay new turf
- Prepare ground for sowing grass seed
Bulbs
- Start off Dahlia Tubers
- Divide snowdrops and winter aconites after flowering
- Plant new snowdrops and winter aconites in the green
- Pot up lillies for planting out later
Containers
- Top dress pots with new compost
- Apply fertiliser
Ponds
- If you have fish and its been frozen for a prolonged period melt a hole in the ice to allow oxygen in.
- Dig any new ponds
Climbers
- Brush off snow
- Prune late flowering Clematis [Group 3]
- Prune winter flowering Jasmine after flowering
- Prune summer flowering Jasmine
- Plant new climbers
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