Gardeners Almanac - January
By admin On October 17, 2008
Under Gardening Year
- 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.
- 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.