Horky’s Weekly Gardening Tips!
21st November 2011
Horky’s Weekly Gardening Tips.
January sees the start of the gardening year, the mild weather over the Christmas period has awakened the spring flowering plants with early daffodils and cyclamen bursting into flower.
Now is an ideal time to kick start your garden by…
- Plant up window boxes and patio planters with Spring colour, Spring pansies, violas, primulas, cyclamen, snowdrops and early flowering tulips are now ready for planting and will reward you with lots of early spring colour.
- Remove damaged and dead hedges now and replace with bare rooted beech, evergreen laurel, Portuguese laurel or green privet.
- Summer flowering bulbs including Dahlias, double flowering begonias, scented lilies and gladiola for cut flower are now ready for planting. Dahlias and begonias should be planted indoors in gentle heat to start them off. Click here for our full range of Flower Seeds and Bulbs!
- Garlic, onion, shallots and red baron onion bulbs are now available for planting out of doors. Add some Sea mungus organic fertiliser to the soil before planting. Click here to view our "Grow Your Own" range of Vegetable Seeds
- Early seed potatoes are now ready for sprouting indoors in the greenhouse or polytunnel – Home Guard – Sharpes express, duke of York, British queens and colleen can be sprouted now to reward you with an early crop.
- Sweet pea seed should be sown now indoors in seed trays in gentle heat, My tip is to soak the seed over night in tepid water and sow the seed directly into Supergrow compost the following day – Simply Leave the seed tray indoors on a window sill for rapid germination.
- Would you like to have early sticks of sweet tasting Rhubarb – Cover your existing rhubarb crowns with a black bin or large timber box – exclude the light and look forward to some tasty pink sticks of rhubarb at the end of February.
- Green Moss and Lichen is a problem on patio drives and walkways clean it now with a dressing of Patio Magic. Simply spray the patio magic treatment over the effected area and within days the moss and lichen will die and wither. See this months special offer on Patio Magic!
- January is the ideal time to sow seeds of flowering geraniums and begonias – Simply sow the seed now in small seed trays and place in light on a bright window sill. Geraniums and begonias are easy to grow from seed.
- Prune back apple trees, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries now to help stimulate growth and maximise fruiting for this season. Click here to see our range of Pruning Shears
Mid January is the ideal time to treat your shrub borders and rose beds with Premazor weed control. Premazor is mixed with water and applied to the soil around established trees, shrubs and roses to help stop the germination of weeds for this season. Remember to read and follow instructions for best effect.
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