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What to do now... weekly checklists

Finished compost bin

Select a week to find out what jobs to do in your garden

Job of the week

Build a compost bin

Start adding homemade compost to your soil and you'll not only enjoy watching your garden thrive and flourish but you'll also have the satisfaction of seeing your kitchen waste get recycled too. In just five easy steps, we'll show you how to create a simple, economical container to get your heap going.

Takes just: 1 day

Flowers

Taking delphinium cutting
  • Take cuttings from delphiniums
  • Wash off greenfly from shoot tips with soapy water
  • Feed rhododendrons, azaleas, pieris and camellias
  • See all flowers jobs

Fruit and veg

Covering strawberries with cloches
  • Cover rows of strawberries with cloches
  • Plant early potatoes outside in rows
  • Spray fruit trees and bushes with fungicide
  • See all fruit & veg jobs

Greenhouse

Planting achimenes in pot

Around the garden

Standing plants in cold frame
  • Move plants from greenhouse to cold frame
  • Dig out new ponds and water features
  • Clean and sharpen secateurs and garden knives
  • See all around the garden jobs

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