JOBS TO DO THIS WEEK
If cold weather is forecast, protect plants with some horticultural fleece or move them indoors.
Daffodils are starting to poke through the ground. If you haven’t planted any yet, buy some pots in the garden centre and get to work.
Prune summer flowering deciduous shrubs such as Buddleja davidii, hardy fuchsias and lavatera. This will not affect their flowering as they flower on new wood.
Don’t prune springflowering shrubs, for example forsythia, as that removes their flower buds.
Cut back late summer and autumnflowering clematis to just a foot above ground level.
Time to sow onions, early leeks, peas, cabbages and lettuces under cover.
There’s still time to buy and plant soft fruit bushes.
Firm down plants lifted by the frost. Trim winter heathers as flowers start to go brown.