Gardeners Almanac - January

• Send off your seed order.

• Keep off lawns in frosty weather.

• Plant rose bushes, trees and shrubs.

• Prune fruit trees and bushes.

• Spray fruit trees with a tar oil winter wash to kill pests.

• Put rabbit guards around stems of young trees if necessary.

• Sow exhibition onions in a greenhouse.

• Lay turf if weather is mild and dry.

• Firm back plants lifted by frost.

• Dig over the vegetable plot.

• Put plastic netting over winter brassicas to keep off pidgeons.

• Plant three potatoes in a large flower pot in the greenhouse for an early crop.

• Prune wisteria.

• Knock snow off evergreens.

• Feed birds in cold and frosty weather.

• Prune summer flowering deciduous shrubs.

• Melt ice on frozen pools to let fish breathe.