1. Prune Group 3 clematis (late flowering viticella types) now by cutting all stems back just above a leaf node starting from the ground up. Don’t be timid as they respond well. Then feed around the plant base with an organic feed making sure to avoid emerging shoots and mulch with compost.
2. If you have some, mulch your beds with homemade compost or leafmould. If you don’t have enough just mulch around your favourite plants.
3. Give roses their final prune and feed and mulch.
4. As clumps of snowdrops stop flowering dig up and split and replant singly if you can bear it or in clumps of 3s and 4s at the same height as previously and surround with a dollop of leafmould if you have some. Crowded clumps can stop flowering.
5. If you want to increase your dahlias check over your tubers cutting out any damaged parts with a clean knife and pot up loosely in trays or pots of compost in a bright warm place. Take cuttings as shoots emerge which should root quickly.
6. Pinch out the tips of autumn sown sweet peas to ensure bushy plants.
7. Sow calendula, nigella and cornflowers now directly if the weather is mild. If not, sow under cover.
8. Ventilate greenhouses in warm weather. Plants in my lean to have aphids and slime trails and don’t look good so I need to take a torch to them I think at night.
9. Weed paths now before things get their roots down and are difficult to get out.
10. Watch out for frogs and toads emerging from hibernation this month and next.
Happy gardening!
Pat K
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