Photo: brighten up your garden ornaments.Deadhead winter flowering pansies and primroses. Keep a few seed heads intact though to increase your stock later in the year.
Your garden ornaments will be looking a bit sad at the moment after being outside all year. Give them a scrub to brighten them up.
Check your greenhouse plants for aphids. As the weather warms up, they will begin to breed on soft shoots and under leaves. Ventilate greenhouses well on sunny days or the temperature will soar. Clean all greenhouse window and cold-frame glass to ensure seedlings receive maximum light. Also, of course, windows indoors where plants are being grown. Start over-wintered geraniums (pelargoniums) back into growth, potting on into fresh compost and watering well. Prune back over-leggy stems. Apply liquid feed every 10-14 days and take cuttings from the new shoots when they are around 3in long.
Water African violets from the bottom; avoid getting any water on the leaves. Dust the leaves with a small, soft brush.
Take cuttings from new shoots on fuchsias and potted-up dahlias. These cuttings root very easily and will flower this year.
Watch out for mice taking beans and sweet peas in greenhouses. I lost all of mine one year and it’s very irritating.
Horticultural.
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