Gardening Jobs for January
- Prune the fruit trees – apple (pear can also be done)
- Prune blackcurrent, redcurrent, gooseberries and jostaberry
- Prune the Contorted Hazel, red creeper and climbing hydrangea
- Cut down any old stems on the Sedum and dead head the winter pansies
- Spike the lawn to help with the drainage
- Harvest leeks and parsnips
- Clean garden tools
- Sow Snap Dragons, Lobelia, Salvias and Chillies
- Ventilate the greenhouse on warmer days and check the plants under fleeces are surviving
- Plan the summer flower-beds and the vegetable plot (order the seeds or plug plants)
- (Slightly late) Dig in a little lime where I want to grow the cabbages and cover the ground with black plastic where we’ll have the early potatoes