Your Gardening Jobs For The Year!

Adrienne Wild gives topical tips and advice on what to do in your garden from spring to autumn

FEBRUARY MARCH • Sow frost-sensitive summer-bedding seeds, such as pelargoniums, in pots on a warm windowsill. For something a bit different, sow and grow climbers, such as Chilean Glory Flower (Eccremocarpus) and Morning Glory (Ipomoea). • Sow beetroot, salad onions, radish and lettuce every two weeks for a ready supply of fresh salads throughout the summer. • Give bulbs the perfect partners by planting the gaps in-between with colourful spring bedding, such as polyanthus, bellis daisies, wallflowers and forget-me-nots - sold in pots and trays at garden centres. TOP TIP Have secateurs, shears, hoes, spades and the lawnmower sharpened ready for action. APRIL • Sow hardy annuals where you want them to flower – mark out a sowing scheme on bare soil with silver sand. • Sow some chilli pepper…

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Woman's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 09-feb-16

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