Reflect on your garden and plan for any changes. This is good time to think about all the changes you want to make and plan to do them in the next few months.
- Trim back perennials and lift and divide those perennials that have become too big or are starting to decline in vigor because they are to cramped.
- Finish planting annuals for spring display. These include stocks, wallflowers, polyanthus, Myosotis, Sweet William and Calendula.
- Plant liliums and nerines in new positions. Lift, plant and divide liliums in one operation.
- Manure heliborus with liquid fertiliser until flowers show or apply a short term slow release fertiliser.
- Prune dead heads off hydrangeas.
- Spray plants for scale insects using all seasons spraying oil.
- Transplant trees and shrubs to new positions, do this before you go out and buy new ones.
- Start planting new trees and shrubs in there permanent positions.
- Sow broad beans
- Continue succession planting of cabbages, cauliflower's broccoli and silver beet.
- Plant green crops in the garden to protect the soil and provide future green material to dig into the ground.
- Remove old tomato vines and clean out all the old leaves and material that might harbour pests and diseases. Cultivate the ground.
- Clean the glasshouse with Jeyes fluid
- Sow a green crop of mustard
- Reduce the amount of water given to pot plants. If frosty shift susceptible plants away from the windows to the centre of the room.
- Oil outdoor furniture to protect it from the elements
- Clean garden tools and service motor driver tools.