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General tips
- Dig in any remaining manure and compost.
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Lawns
- Rake lawns to remove thatch, and mow when the grass grows well.
- Sow or turf new lawns and patch bare areas.
- Feed lawns with blood-fish and bone or a general fertiliser.
- Mow where growth is advanced.
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Containers
- Plant summer-flowing bulbs and corms
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Beds & Borders
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Annuals and biennials
- Sow hardy annuals where they will flower.
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Perennials
- Begin planting greenhouse-reared perennials.
- Lift and divide large clumps of established plants.
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Bulbs
- Lift, split and transplant clumps of snowdrops while still 'in
the green.'
- Plant summer-flowering bulbs as soon as the ground becomes workable.
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Roses
- Prune hybrid roses to remove any winter damage from wind and
frost.
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Shrubs, Trees and Climbers
- Take greenwood and hardwood cuttings of shrubs and perennials.
- Plant bare-rooted shrubs and trees.
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Vegetables
- Feed spring cabbages with blood-fish and bone.
- Plant garlic, autumn onion sets and Jerusalem artichokes.
- Plant out sweet pea seedlings raised under glass.
- Feed spring cabbages with a high-nitrogen fertiliser.
- Sow leeks, spinach beet, Brussels sprouts, cabbages and broad
beans outside.
- Sow peas, French beans and beetroot under cloches.
- Plant out winter-sown peas raised under glass, and the first
spinach plants, covering them in a cloche if the weather is poor.
- Plant out English onion sets, shallots and garlic.
- Plant early potatoes and other tubers.
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Fruit
- Feed redcurrants and whitecurrants with potash, and blackcurrants
with blood-fish and bone.
- Graft apples, plums and pears.
- Check netting on fruit bushes.
- Remove straw protection from developing figs.
- Feed soft-fruit bushes with high-potassium fertiliser.
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Greenhouse
- Sow any outdoor cucumber varieties, leeks, runner beans, squashes
and celeriac in the greenhouse.
- Sow heat-loving plants such as sweetcorn and runner beans in
the greenhouse.
- Sow the last of your half-hardy annuals.
- Begin sowing herbs, sweet peppers, aubergines, greenhouse cucumbers
and tomatoes in the greenhouse for later planting.
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Herbs
- Begin sowing herbs of most varieties indoors.
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