Webbs February Gardening Job List

February is the last month of Winter, the days are becoming slightly longer and there are now signs that spring is well and truly on it’s way. There is plenty to do during this month in order to prepare for the months ahead.

Webbs Grounds team have compiled their list of the top jobs to do in the garden this month:
 

  • Prepare vegetable seed beds and sow some vegetables

  • Encourage your potato tubers so they will be ready to plant

  • Protect blossom on apricots, nectarines and peaches

  • Net fruit and vegetable crops to keep the birds off

  • Prune any winter flowering shurbs

  • Divide bulbs, such as snowdrops, and plant those that need planting

  • Prune your wisteria

  • Prune hardy evergreen hedges and renovate overgrown deciduous hedges

  • Prune conservatory climbers

  • Cut back deciduous grasses left uncut over the winter and remove dead grass from evergreen grasses