{"id":1394,"date":"2015-01-02T07:58:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T14:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2017-12-11T20:05:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T20:05:32","slug":"january-garden-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/january-garden-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter  Garden Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1396\" title=\"witch-hazel\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/witch-hazel.jpg\" alt=\"witch-hazel\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/witch-hazel.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/witch-hazel-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can start your\u00c2\u00a0 gardening on New Years Day or as soon as your hangover is cured. Do not have too many resolutions or you won&#8217;t keep any of them. I find it is a good idea to know roughly what you want to achieve in the year without being too specific as to how. For my part I have decided to have more soft fruit and &#8216;Shock and Awe&#8217; type garden features.<\/p>\n<h3>Steps for January<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Fruit<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prune apple trees and thin out the fruiting spurs. In my case buy cordons or ballerina trees.<\/li>\n<li>Cut out any dead or diseased wood and spray trees with winter tar oil wash to deter insects. Leave the plums till later.<\/li>\n<li>Remove any big buds on black currant bushes.<\/li>\n<li>Cover a rhubarb crown with a forcer to get early, thin, pink stems.<\/li>\n<li>Plant any new trees or shrubs &#8211; I want a dessert gooseberry<\/li>\n<li>Tie up raspberry canes and check for loose ties on trees and wall trained fruit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vegetables<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Order any seeds from a reputable supplier and sprout potatoes in a box with the rounded rose end upper most<\/li>\n<li>Sow some broad beans when it is mild<\/li>\n<li>Lime the vegetable patch that grew brassicas last year. Do not lime your potato patch.<\/li>\n<li>Plan where crop rotation is going to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Flowers and Shrubs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tidy the borders and plant lilies and Antirrhinums<\/li>\n<li>Ventilate your cold frame<\/li>\n<li>Check frost protection for new young shrubs<\/li>\n<li>Spray roses and the surrounding ground against black spot and mulch Rhododendrons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lawns<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Service the lawn mower ready for spring<\/li>\n<li>Keep clear of dead leaves Rake mossy areas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Greenhouse and Indoor Plants<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clean staging and fumigate the greenhouse<\/li>\n<li>Take cuttings of late flowering chrysanthemums<\/li>\n<li>Keep houseplants on the dry side in the best light<\/li>\n<li>Pick sprays of Daphne &amp; forsythia to flower indoors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>General<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t rush into doing anything too early but be prepared for your busy period<\/li>\n<li>Do any construction work except concreting during a frost<\/li>\n<li>Sow leeks and onions in boxes and even some lettuce and peppers in the warmth.<\/li>\n<li>Look closely around your garden there will be treasures to uncover. Hellebore niger, Winter Jasmin and Witch Hazel (above) are all flowering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>February Tips<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4040\/4273586419_7d4d1d0841_o.jpg\" alt=\"garden\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Garden Tasks for February<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish Planting trees and shrubs. The earlier trees and shrubs can be planted the better<\/li>\n<li>Prepare Soil. If the soil is not frozen it is a good time to prepare the soil through digging where necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Finish Pruning of Roses or other shrubs<\/li>\n<li>Towards the end of February, you can start dahlia tubers and similar tubers such gloxina and Begonias indoors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Vegetable Garden in February<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sow early crops under glass. Early vegetables can included mustard, cress, parsnips, broad beans and lettuce.<\/li>\n<li>Towards end of the month you can start thinning out seedlings<\/li>\n<li>Prune Autumn fruiting Raspberries. Autumn producing raspberries want to be cut back to 6 inches as they fruit on new growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/180\/371969259_4aeba08707_o.jpg\" alt=\"crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A bed of crocus<\/p>\n<h3>Things to Enjoy in the February Garden<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Early bulbs &#8211; snowdrops, crocus, early daffodills.<\/li>\n<li>Early primulas &#8211;<\/li>\n<li>Early pansies<\/li>\n<li>Camellia Japonica<\/li>\n<li>Daphne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2693\/4300380069_c009f683df.jpg\" alt=\"flower\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/february-tips-for-gardeners\/\">February Gardeners Tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/january-garden-tips\/\">January Garden Tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/top-10-spring-shrubs\/\">Top 10 Spring Flowering Shrubs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/early-spring-flowers\/\">Early Spring Flowers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can start your\u00c2\u00a0 gardening on New Years Day or as soon as your hangover is cured. Do not have too many resolutions or you won&#8217;t keep any of them. I find it is a good idea to know roughly what you want to achieve in the year without being too specific as to how. For my part I have decided to have more soft fruit and &#8216;Shock and Awe&#8217; type garden features. Steps for January Fruit Prune apple trees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/january-garden-tips\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-my-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}