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This is one of the busiest periods for the gardener, so get outdoors and enjoy your garden; feeling the warming sun and the increased bird song, Spring is a truly pleasant and peaceful time of year.

March

• Complete pruning of gooseberries.
• Cover blossoms of apricots, peaches and nectarines with fleece to protect from frost.
• Feed fruit with potassium sulphate at 15g per sq m.
• Early spring is an ideal time to divide herbaceous plants.
• Complete cutting back deciduous ornamental grasses and other perennials.
• Plant warm season grasses such Pennisetum and Miscanthus.
• Apply a general purpose fertilizer and mulch beds and borders.
• Start to mow lawns, checking the blades are set high.
• Apply a moss killer to the lawn and lightly scarify 2 weeks later.
• Mend lawn edges and repair any bare patches.

April

• Order your ‘snowdrops in the green’ and plant them as soon as is possible.
• Use fleece to protect early outdoor sowings.
• Don’t sow seeds for tender plants such as Ipomoea -wait until May.
• Remove faded daffodil flowers.
• Apply a thick layer of organic mulch to rose and shrub beds.
• Complete the moving and planting of evergreen trees and shrubs.
• Divide herbaceous plants.
• Plant summer flowering bulbs.
• Continue to mow lawns and don’t lower the blades too quickly.
• Apply a 5 month longevity feed to your lawn.

May

• Don’t forget to cover peaches, apricots and nectarines with fleece on cold nights.
• Cut back some older stems on figs to encourage new growth.
• Continue successional sowings of salad crops and herbs.
• Watch out for red lily beetle on Lilium and Fritillaria plants,
• Divide polyanthus and primroses.
• Lift and divide crowded clumps of daffodils.
• Start liquid feeding container plants.
• Remove faded spring bedding like wallflowers and remove spent tulip flowers.
• Clip evergreen hedges.
• Prune overgrown Clematis montana after flowering.

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