Top ten jobs for February.
- Prepare vegetable seed beds, and sow some vegetables under cover.
- Chit potato tubers.
- Still protect blossom on apricots, nectarines and peaches.
- Net fruit and vegetable crops to keep the birds off.
- Prune winter-flowering shrubs that have finished flowering.
- Divide bulbs such as snowdrops, and plant those that need planting ‘in the green’.
- Prune Wisteria
- Prune hardy evergreen hedges and renovate overgrown deciduous hedges.
- Cut back deciduous grasses left uncut over the winter.
- Check your glasshouse insulation is still secure for the remainder of the cold weather.