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Home LivingGardenGardening jobs for February: 10 tasks that will prepare and protect your outside spacePrepare your garden for spring with these essential tasksWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Prepare your garden for spring with these essential tasks
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After an interesting month filled with a variety of different weather conditions and temperatures, February is now here and we’re back with another gardening guide. That’s right, put yourgardening glovesback on because it’s time to get outside again.
If you’re new here, I’m using 2024 to attune my gardening skills after abandoning my outside space last year. During this process, it’s my aim to share each of the garden maintenance tasks I’ll be completing throughout 2024, and as previously mentioned, February’s list has arrived.
Following on from mygardening jobs for January, Craig Wilson, Co-founder, Director and in-house gardening expert atGardeners Dreamhas shared with me his expert advice on February gardening. These are the jobs I’ll be focusing on this month, and hopefully you will be too.
Before you find out more, have you secured the10 essentials every gardener should have in their tool kityet?
Garden maintenance
February is a good time to do a checkover of your ground plants, especially as January was a frosty month with numerous storms. Following cold weather and high winds, some plants may have lifted, so make sure to firm down the soil around any that have loosened. This will ensure they are nice and secure for the month ahead.
2. Clean and service any lawnmowers and power tools
February is also a perfect time to get your garden tools in order ahead of spring. Making sure mowers and power tools are running smoothly and petrol tanks are filled will save you a job when the real garden work begins in the next few months. On that note, have you seen therust-busting hack from TikTokwhich is perfect for garden tools?
3. Install bird boxes for spring chicks
When spring arrives, birds will be looking for places to nest and welcome their chicks. Setting up a bird box or two won’t just help them out, but it will also be nice for you to watch them hatch and grow.
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4. Prepare your vegetable beds
5. Install water butts whilst rainfall is still quite high
Whilst the weather is particularly wet, it’s a great idea to install a water butt or two. Not only will it save you money on water bills come summer time, but it is more beneficial for your acid-loving, ericaceous plants, such as Azaleas, Hydrangeas, and fruits like blueberries and raspberries.
Plants, flowers and trees
6. Prune hardy evergreen hedges
7. Prune wisteria
Wisteria requires regular pruning. As beautiful as it is, it’s a plant that grows quite rapidly, sp pruning will keep it under control and improve the way it flowers. All you will need to do is cut back the shoots you pruned in the summer to two or three buds.
8. Prune summer flowing clematis
Fruit and vegetables
9. Chit early variety potatoes
Chitting early variety potatoes in February will get you off to a head start and give you the chance to get a slightly earlier harvest. All you need to do is stand your seed potatoes in egg cartons or trays with the end with the most eyes facing upwards. Place the trays in a cool, dry and frost-free location and leave them be. Once the shoots are about an inch long, they are ready to plant.
10. Start sowing some seeds under cover
February is a good time to start planting things such as lettuce and other salad crops under cover, which is good practice if you want to enjoy an earlier crop. How to sow them will depend on the type of vegetable you are planting, so ensure to follow any packet instructions carefully.
If you’re interested in more, have you seen these8 cheap DIY garden projectsthat will transform your outdoor space?
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