Gardening Tasks
January

• Use cloches or covering to warm the soil for early vegetable sowings.
• Raise lettuce, salad crops and strawberry plants for early picking, in a poly tunnel or greenhouse.
• Continue harvesting parsnips, kale, leeks, winter cabbage, chard, spinach and Brussels sprouts

• Dig up congested snowdrops and winter aconites, replenish soil and redistribute plants.
• Trim lawn edges and reseed bare or worn patches

• Apply preservative to timber fences, sheds and pergolas.
• Spray patios to treat slippery surfaces.
• Using purpose cleaner remove moss, mould, algae and dirt from decking.
• When dry apply protective application to decking.
• Repair, upgrade or create new hard landscaping.

• Replace tired old roses with some of the new excellent disease resistant varieties.
• Plant bare root roses, trees, shrubs, canes and bushes.
• Prune shrub roses.
• Opportunity to move existing shrubs to better locations.
• Water new or moved plantings in dry spells.

• Start forcing rhubarb and seakale.
• Check planted containers of spring bulbs.
• Finish taking hardwood cuttings.
• Trim wall climbers into shape.

• Prune buddleias and late summer flowering clematis.
• Prune wisteria, hardy fuchsia and cornus.
• Prune apple and pear cordons, fans and espaliers.
• Prune blackberry, gooseberry and loganberry.
• Prune summer fruiting raspberry.
• Prune black, red and white currents.
• Prune fig.