Gardener's Diary

Top 10 jobs

  1. Prepare vegetable seed beds, and sow some vegetables under cover
  2. Chit potato tubers
  3. Protect blossom on apricots, nectarines and peaches
  4. Net fruit and vegetable crops to keep the birds off
  5. Prune winter-flowering shrubs that have finished flowering
  6. Divide bulbs such as snowdrops, and plant those that need planting 'in the green'
  7. Prune Wisteria
  8. Prune hardy evergreen hedges, and renovate overgrown deciduous hedges
  9. Prune conservatory climbers
  10. Cut back deciduous grasses left uncut over the winter

Content of the Gardener's Diary is based upon Royal Horticultural Society material.