01 Jan General jobs for Jolly January!
- Spray peaches against peach leaf curl
- Plant bare root fruit trees and bushes
- Prune back hard rose bushes
- Cut back perennial grasses, such as Hakonechloa, Miscanthus and Pennisetum
- Dig over heavy soil, incorporating compost or manure to improve soil texture
- To improve drainage, spike the lawn
- Order your summer bedding seeds and plug plants
- Start forcing your rhubarb
- Stake new trees and check the supports of older ones
- Give the compost heap a turn over
- Take root cuttings from dormant perennials
- Viburnums are in flower
- Plan the vegetable plot
- Weed beneath currant bushes and fruit trees and apply a weed suppressant membrane
- Prune back hard Buddliea, Catalpa, Cotinus and Salix
- Collect and sow seeds, such as Honesty (Lunaria annua)