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What to do now... weekly checklists

Sprinkling seed onto compost

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Job of the week

Sow seeds indoors

Growing from seed is a simple and economical way of raising new plants for your garden. While many plants are hardy enough to grow outdoors, they'll benefit from being sown indoors to give them a head start. Sowing indoors is also useful for extending the growing season of tender bedding plants and vegetables.

Takes just: 30 minutes to sow and 30 minutes to pot on

Flowers

Pinching out sweet pea tips
  • Sow sweet peas in pots, and pinch out shoot tips
  • Cut old stems of mallow (Lavatera) to ground level
  • Plant hedging plants
  • See all flowers jobs

Fruit and veg

Covering rhubarb with bucket
  • Cover rhubarb with an old bucket to exclude light
  • Prune gooseberry bushes to open up the centre
  • Place seed potatoes in trays in a bright, frost-free position
  • See all fruit & veg jobs

Greenhouse

Planting dahlia tuber
  • Place potted-up dahlia tubers in a heated propagator
  • Start raising crops from seed
  • Prevent seedlings suffering damping-off disease
  • See all greenhouse jobs

Around the garden

Planting phormium in pot
  • Plant colourful Phormium 'Cream Delight' in a patio pot
  • Take care not to walk over borders or on lawns
  • Order young plants from mail-order companies
  • See all around the garden jobs

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