Burstow Nurseries & Garden Centre

Your Garden - February

• Sow early crops in your coldframe, ie radishes and turnips seeds
• Prepare bean and celery trenches
• Apply slow-acting fertilisers such as bonemeal to your vegetable plot
• Start chitting seed potatoes for early varieties - seasonal products 
• Start sowing appropriate vegetables in the heated greenhouse

• Take dahlia cuttings from tubers
• Sow bedding plants in seed trays in heated greenhouse or on windowsill - seeds
• Start pricking out early sown bedding plants
• Ensure greenhouse glass is clean so that plants receive plenty of light
• Tidy up rock gardens and apply fresh chippings (decorative aggregrates) where necessary 
• Start killing perennial weeds on paths and driveways - plant care

• Brush off wormcasts
• Now is the time to treat moss in the lawn with an appropriate mosskiller such as lawn sand.
• Lay turf in mild areas providing the ground is not frozen or waterlogged 

Wildlife Garden

Gardening will be very much dependent on the weather in your area with the timings given as a guide only.