Mad as a March hare
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Digging in compost or well-rotted manure will give your border plants a good, quick start, as will adding fertiliser such as pelleted chicken manure. Watch out for slugs attacking new shoots – nematodes will organically fight your corner for you - and deal with weeds now before they start taking over.
Give fruit trees, canes and bushes a feed. Large flowering clematis, roses and buddleias will all benefit from pruning and if you have a heated greenhouse you can be sowing annuals for May planting. Containers will reward you if you give them a top dressing of fresh compost, and plant them, as well as beds and borders, with summer flowering bulbs such as Lilies and Ranunculus. There’s more veg to be sown: peas, beans, carrots, parsnips, onion sets and seed potatoes.
- Plant herbaceous perennials
- Lift and divide perennials to gain new plants
- Position supports now so they will be concealed by plant growth
- Sow flower seeds for planting out in June
- Give the lawn a mow if it’s dry and it needs it
- Plant bare root roses and feed roses
- Lay turf and repair bare patches in lawns
- Plant out daffodils and hyacinths that flowered indoors
- Trim back hedges before birds start nesting
- Succession plant gladioli and montbretias in late March onwards for a long display
- Cut back Cornus (dogwoods), Salix (willow) and winter Jasmine
- Start feeding pond fish
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