Top 10 jobs this month
Plant shallots, onion sets and early potatoes
Protect new spring shoots from slugs
Plant summer-flowering bulbs
Lift and divide overgrown clumps of perennials
Top dress containers with fresh compost
Mow the lawn on dry days (if needed)
Cut back Cornus (dogwood) and Salix (willow) grown for colourful winter stems
Weeds come back in to growth – deal with them before they get out of hand
Start feeding fish and using the pond fountain; remove pond heaters
Open the greenhouse or conservatory doors and vents on warm days
Part 1:- Nettles
Get some nettles from a field and put them into water, leave them soak for three weeks and they will turn into liquid – this would make great feed for all plants and it’s organic! In order to keep this going for the summer – you would need to get more nettles to soak every three or four weeks and just leave them to soak.
Part 2:- Nettles
After soaking the nettles for three weeks, get a bucket of rain water and add a jug of nettle water to the bucket of rain water and mix it together, then water your plants with it.
Start a Wormery
There are many ways of making your own compost. In recent years, womeries have become very popular. These are composters which come with live worms that do all the work of recycling your garden waste. The resulting compost is particularly rich and can be used in many different ways. Wormeries need to be positioned carefully. Avoid placing them in spots where they may overheat, ideally, positioning them where there’s a little shade. It’s also crucial that you follow instructions carefully. By following a few simple rules, it’s easy to keep the colony of worms healthy. The trick is to put in a balanced range of materials and to avoid too much of any one thing. Many wormeries make excellent liquid feed, which is completely organic.
Rainwater
Rainwater is good to have and it’s organic.Leave a few buckets outside your greenhouse or somewhere around the garden,the buckets will full up with water or get a big both and each time it rain – let it full up.
Pruning Heathers
During February and March, winter-flowering heathers are at their peak. In mid to late simmer there is another flush of flowers, primarily from Calluna cultivate.
Set Up Dahlias
Dahlia tubers which have been stored over winter should be ‘set up’ now so you can take cuttings. These will grow on and provide a wide spectrum of colour for midsummer and autumn. Cover the tubers with moist compost and place in warm humid environment, and in approximated three weeks new growth should begin to appear. Prepare their summer destination beds now. Choose an open, sheltered site that is well drained. Dahlias are heavy feeders, so prepare the soil. Dig in a large quantity of well-rotted organic matter, and add bone meal at a rate of 125g per sq m (4.5oz per 10 sq ft).
Bindweed
Bindweed is very hard to control and the best way to deal with it is to dig it out of the soil and just keep digging it out every time it come back, dig over your soil and cultivate it with a cultivator, – by doing that you are weakling the root of the bindweed and over time it will stop coming back but please do not put it onto the computes heap/bin because that is how it spent. If you can get some manure from a farmer and add that to your soil – that would improve the quality of the soil.
Couch Grass
Couch grass is very hard to control – the best way to deal with it is to dig it out of the soil and just keep digging it out every time it come back, dig over your soil and cultivate it with a cultivator, – by doing that you are weakling the root of the bindweed and over time it will stop coming back but please do not put it onto the computes heap/bin because that is how it spent. If you can get some manure from a farmer and add that to your soil – that would improve the quality of the soil.
