Overview

Keeping on top of the gardening jobs can be daunting, and it’s all too easy to let things slide in one area or another for a month or two.

The answer is to keep a detailed checklist of jobs that need doing in each month of the year, and that’s what this course is all about.

This course is aimed at all gardeners, from complete beginners to more advanced gardeners, to help you to keep on top of what needs doing in your garden. I’ve collected the most useful tasks to do for each month and given a brief description of how to do it and why.

Use this guide at the start of each month, make notes and then put the tips into practice for a beautiful garden year-round.

Syllabus

Gardening Calendar - Introduction
January - mulching, potted bulbs, greenhouse
January - chitting, sowing, pruning
January - onions, rhubarb, apple trees
January - seed beds, cuttings, christmas tree
February - Shoots, Primroses, Parsley
February - Broad beans, cut back perennials, plant shrubs
February - Snowdrops, sweet peas, dahlias
February - Fuchsias, tomatoes, lettuce
February - veg beds, shrub roses, top dress containers
March - primroses, daffodils, sweet peas
March - gladioli, cannas, plant supports
March - polyanthus, seedlings, anemone corms
March - flower seeds, garden pests, begonias
March - strawberries, harvesting, perennials
March - cuttings, heather, lawn
April - pruning fuscias, planting sweet peas, chrysanthemums cuttings
April - sow annual bulbs, hanging baskets, aeonium cuttings
April - cucumbers, houseplants, melons
April - boost strawberry yields, seeds for children to grow, plant seed potatoes
April - laying turf, mowing lawns, using nematodes
April - prune shrubs, more basal cuttings, tie in climbers
May - ginger lillies, deadhead tulips, aster cuttings
May - ladybird larvea, sow biennials, divide herbs
May - Harvest rhubarb, sow veg outdoors, plant out peppers
May - lavender plug plants, composting, edge the lawn
June - planting pumpkins, sow French beans, plant ferns
June - marigolds, deadhead roses, prune wisteria
June - tomato side shoots, hydrangea cuttings, water greenhouse plants
June - sow herbs in pots, sow radishes, raspberries
June - foxgloves from seed, plant out dahlias, green up your lawn
July - feeding containers, growing lettuce, cleaning the pond
July - save seeds, pricking out seedlings, cuttings of penstemons
July - plant autumn bulbs, potato blight and botrytis, deadhead herbs
July - pinch out tomatoes, feed crops, take herb cuttings
July - harvest summer crops, pruning, summer mowing
August - make your own plant feed, shaping fruit trees, increase dahlia blooms
August - layer clematis, divide bearded irises, collect poppy seeds
August - capillary matting, harvest blackcurrants, green manure
August - sow basil, late salad seeds, harvest beans
August - marjoram plants, remove couch grass, salvia cuttings
August - maintain roses, prune lavender, quick tips
September - prune raspberries, elephant garlic, pelargonium cuttings
September - oriental poppies, sweet williams, morning glory
September - collect seeds, replace bedding plants, harvest sage
September - tie in climbers, harvest late raspberries, plant onions
September - rosemary cuttings, repot moth orchids, sow lettuce
September - improve lawn quality, final privet trim, watering flowering plants
October - leaf compost, bring succulents indoors, brussels sprouts
October - winter flowers, prune roses,hardy geraniums
October - divide summer perennials, grey mould, lettuce seed
October - garden canes, non hearting salads,sow broad beans
October - transplanting shrubs, plant wood anemones, prune Rowan trees
November - greenhouse grown lettuce, protect semi tender shrubs
November - swiss chard, mulch, winter prune peonies
November - bare root roses, sow chilli seeds, Mealybugs
November - harvest turnips, cover winter veg, leave seedheads for birds
December - collect holly, parsnips, harvest celeriac
December - container plants, add pots of colour, plant more bulbs
December - sow pelargonium seeds, check sweet peas, brussels sprouts
December - eat your beets, shrubs, Pollard dormant trees to limit size

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Mark Shorter

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