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GARDEN CALENDAR

January

Lawns:

• Keep off frosty or water logged lawns.

Flower Border:

• Dead head winter flowering Pansies.
• Choose flower and vegetable seeds.
• Examine Dahlia tubers and Chrysanthemum stores for mould.
• Hard prune tough deciduous hedges such as Hawthorn and Privet.
• Firm shrubs that may have been loosened by the wind and remove any dead or diseased shoots.
• Prune Wisteria sinensis. This will encourage it to produce flowers rather than too much leaf.  Cut back side shoots to about 3-4 inches while the plant is dormant.
• Cut back late flowering Clematis.

Vegetable Patch:

• Cover an area of the plot with fleece, cloches or plastic to help warm up the soil and dry up the surface.
• Dig Parsnips and Leeks.
• Dig over the vegetable patch if it has not already been done.
• Choose seed Potatoes, Onions and Shallots.

Fruit Garden

• Feed trees and bushes.
• Continue winter pruning.