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Timely Gardening Tips

Order annual plants like geraniums, begonias, and petunias online now for summer bedding and hanging basket displays — it’s your last chance!
Give your greenhouse a thorough scrub with hot soapy water if you haven’t already. This will remove pests and diseases and allow more light to enter.
Prepare beds for the growing season by digging in a 5 cm (or more) layer of compost or well-rotted manure. You can also work in a general-purpose fertiliser such as organic chicken manure or fish, blood and bone.
Check your patio plants aren’t drying out. Warmer weather quickly affects soil moisture levels — try mixing water-storing granules with compost to improve water retention in containers.

In the Flower Garden

Lift and divide established border perennial plants now, such as hostas, to improve vigour and create new plants for your garden.
Pinch out the tips of fuchsia plants and sweet pea shoots to encourage bushy growth this summer.
Divide primroses once they have finished flowering.
Plant rhododendron bushes now the threat of frost has passed and the ground is moist.
Move evergreen trees and shrubs now, provided the soil isn’t frozen or waterlogged.
Feed trees, shrubs and hedges with a balanced, slow-release fertiliser by lightly forking it into the soil surface. Roses, in particular, will greatly benefit from feeding as they come into growth.
Tie in climbing roses.
Check tree stakes and ties to make sure they’re not cutting into the trunk. Loosen any that are too tight to allow the trunk room to expand.
Prune your penstemons now — cut back all the old shoots to the base, provided there is new growth at the bottom. If no new shoots are visible, cut just above the lowest set of leaves.
Finish cutting back any dead foliage on perennials and ornamental grasses (if you haven’t already) to make way for new growth.
Prune forsythia as soon as they have finished flowering, cutting back to strong, young shoots.
Trim winter-flowering heathers once the flowers fade to prevent the plants becoming leggy.
Tie in new honeysuckle and clematis stems while they are putting on growth.
Continue to remove faded flowers from winter pansies to stop them setting seed and encourage more blooms throughout spring.
Deadhead daffodils and tulips as the flowers finish, but leave the foliage intact to die back naturally.
Apply a layer of mulch around perennials, biennials, trees and shrubs before the hot weather arrives. Use organic matter such as well-rotted manure.

In the Vegetable Garden

Prepare vegetable seed beds by removing all weeds.
Dig a 5 cm (or more) layer of compost, well-rotted manure or green waste into the beds.
Cover prepared soil with sheets of black plastic to keep it drier and warmer ready for planting.
Build raised beds to make growing vegetables easier and reduce bending.
Harvest asparagus spears when they are no more than 18 cm tall.
Support pea and bean plants now. Push twiggy sticks around them for quick and easy supports.
Thin carrot seedlings to achieve good-sized carrots. Do this in the evening when fewer carrot flies are around.