GARDENING TIPS
December & January
by Alan Edmondson ● ● ● ●
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Give garden machinery a good clean and a wipe with an oily cloth before putting away for the winter.
Roses can still be planted so long as the soil is not too wet or frosty.
Place cloches over blooms of Helleborus niger Christmas Rose) or pot up a few plants for a display in the cold greenhouse.
If you have seedling sweet peas in the cold frame, take out the growing tip to encourage side shoots to form.
Start to sow Alpine and Primula seed and expose to frost.
Stand a can of boiling water on the ice covering of ponds. Do not break the ice.
Pot up plants of primroses, polyanthus and border auriculas and bring into the cold greenhouse for early flowering.
Send for some seed catalogues and order something different.
If the lawn was not fed in autumn, apply bone meal to it if it snows and let the snow take it down when it melts.
Check that newly planted heathers and alpines have not been lifted by frost. If they have, firm them back in.
Be careful not to over water house plants and do not leave them between curtains and windows on cold nights.
Rake up fallen rose leaves and burn or bin them. Give a top dressing of rotted organic matter and leave to weather in.
Alan Edmondson of Bowercot Garden Design, Lymington is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Solent’s ‘The Good Life’
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