Love your garden this Easter

Ginny Clark has a list of top tasks to do while it’s still warm

THE OLDER ONE GETS, the faster the time goes! Easter is upon us and the year is flying by. Hopefully, everyone will have a couple of extra days off in and around the Easter period and perhaps have some time to get into the garden while the weather and soil is still warm.

Even 20 minutes here and there is enough time to get some of the garden jobs done, and what a difference it will make.

My top to-dos are:

■ Clear out spent annuals and perennials and cut back and dead-head any flowers that have finished. Now is the time to pop winter flowering annuals such as pansies, polyanthus, primulas, poppies, stock and cinerarias in the ground.

Think about renewing old straggly Enspray oil to help control these. If you

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shrubs. You will find that bigger and have blight in your box hedging get

■ Clear out the vege garden of all those better new season plants are Buxus Blight Fighter on to it quick tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, beans, available at this time of the year, smart. old lettuces and anything that has been especially in the shrub range.

Take time ruined by the rain and bugs and then Our nursery is brimming ■ Select some spring replant with new veges for the winter. with gorgeous new stock of flowering bulbs now and plant

out to sit and

Things like vege combos of caulis, many sorts. these out over the next few

relax and enjoy

broccoli and cabbage, parsley and the weeks so you have a great oak leaf and frilly type lettuces are good ■ Feed your gardens and spring display. Hyacinths,

your garden.

for this time of the year. Also, broad beans, lawns with the appropriate freesias, anemones, carrot, parsnip and turnip seed. fertilisers. ranunculus, daffodils, tulips are all in store now.

■ This is also the time to reassess the ■ Check for bugs and diseases. shrubs in your garden. Prune back those With all the recent rain, fungal ■ Take time out to sit and relax at that have flowered, except for anything diseases are likely to be lurking, so your own place and enjoy your garden. that is frost tender. spray with Grosafe Free Flo Copper and It is your home’s greatest asset.