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February Gardening weather allows, carry on clearing paths, check walls (but avoid concreting until there is no chance of frost), clean and insulate greenhouses and ensure heaters are working properly. Even a little insulation will make a huge difference to your heating. Continue to plan your veg and flower gardens making sure you position the tallest where they will not shade out others. Plant bare-rooted shrubs and trees and container-grown climbers. As long as the ground isn’t frozen, February is removing any parts that are dead, the ideal month for planting as the diseased or decayed, don't prune if soil will soon be warming up, the plant or shrub flowers before encouraging new roots to grow and June as you will remove flowering helping the plant to become shoots and buds. Continue to dig established. Prune Roses by taking over existing beds and borders, again out all dead, weak and crossing stems. Cut hybrid tea roses back to incorporating as much organic matter as you can. Forking over not about 8� to an outward facing bud and cut floribundas only helps prepare the soil (those with flowers in for spring, it helps reduce clusters) down to 10 to pests by exposing them to 12 inches. hungry birds. Seed potatoes Hellebores - or are now available and if you Lenten roses - in their prefer to chit ( encourage many various colours small shoots prior to will be opening from planting )them now is the now on well into the time. Planting onion sets in cell trays or small trays is also a good spring. Trim off their old leaves, both idea so that when planted in their to display the flowers better and to beds they will be well rooted and the prevent the spread of disease. Fresh birds will not disturb them. When the new leaves will emerge in the spring. This month there are signs of the approaching spring, with bulbs appearing as light levels and temperatures increase. There's plenty to do indoors this month, in preparation for the season ahead, sowing early vegetables and preparing propagators ready to sow seed of bedding plants. Its time to tidy up shrubs,
Hostas - although there is no sign of these above ground yet it is not too early by the middle of the month to protect them from slugs whatever method you choose ensure that no other animals can be affected. Do this again each fortnight and your hostas will have their best ever chance of not being devoured by their worst enemies. We have a large s election of all seasonal plants and shrubs available and can source most plants if requested. Visit us at Doncaster road langold S819QL or give me a call on 07979377570 always happy to help. Johnsplants.com
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