Time to head out to the garden!
This is the month when spring arrives and anyone who loves gardening starts to get really excited about the new growing season.
The sun is hopefully starting to shine more and this, combined with the longer days, allows us all to get on with more of those gardening tasks. There’s lots to do – getting seed beds ready, sowing seed, pruning winter shrubs and just getting on with tidying up in the garden.
Here’s a few jobs to be getting on with:
Sow seeds in the greenhouse and start getting vegetable seed beds ready.
Protect all your new spring shoots from slug damage
Plant out early potatoes, onion sets and shallots
Plant summer-flowering bulbs
Overgrown clumps of perennials can be lifted and divided
Containers can be dressed with fresh compost
Time to start planting and sowing
If you have deciduous shrubs, trees, climber or hedging plants you can plant these – it’s a good time before everything else start to grow too much. Remember to put in rabbit guards and stakes to protect trees. This is also a good time to plant roses – remember not to plant where you have previously grown roses, to avoid replant disease.
Fertiliser should also be used on shrubs, hedges and trees – something like blood, fish and bone, or Growmore and sprinkle over the root areas before you hoe it into the surface of the soul. This is particularly beneficial for damaged, weak or hard pruned plants. Roses will appreciate a granular rose fertiliser as they are coming into growth.
Shrub pruning, March 3, RHS Garden Rosemoor
Are you scared about cutting in to your precious plants? Is pruning a mystery to you? Well never fear, this talk and demonstration will teach you all you need to know about pruning. Tutor Jon Webster will cover a wide variety of plants and the reasons why we need to prune. He will reveal how you can trick nature in order to achieve better garden displays, and the tips, techniques and tools you need for the job!
11am-12.30pm. £12 for RHS members (£22 non-members). To book call 020 31765830 and quote booking ref: 11480 (weekdays 9am-5pm).
What now, March 7, RHS Garden Hyde Hall
If you’re unsure of what jobs to do next in the garden, then this workshop will help you out. This seasonal event will cover topics such as planting, dividing, lifting and staking. It will take place outside so do come dressed for the weather. 11am-1pm. £12 for RHS members (£21 for non-members).
To book call: 020 31765830 and quote booking ref: 11353 (weekdays 9am-5pm)
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