The Potting Shed

February 2021

Already a month into 2021 and enjoying our new Programme of Events for 2021 with still much to look forward to in the year ahead.

Working

Jobs to Do in the Garden this Month

February - the last of the Winter months

  • Hardy annuals can be sown now under cover, or with some indoor or propagator warmth, you can get a useful head start on many summer vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, salads, and broad beans, as well as many half-hardy flowers.

  • Start stored Dahlia tubers back into life for early displays by watering lightly and storing the tubers in the light to encourage new shoots prior to planting

  • Plant Lily and Dutch iris bulbs and start gladioli corms into new growth by again positioning them in the light

  • Continue to prepare vegetable beds and start onion sets and garlic in modules under cover or in a sheltered spot

  • Seed potatoes can be chitted now by standing them eyes up in a tray and keep in bright light indoors for the stubby green shoots to grow

  • Prune winter-flowering shrubs once flowering is over

  • Also prune climbers such as Wisteria, Virginia creeper, ivy, Campsis, winter-flowering jasmine, and the late-flowering Clematis – ones that flower on the new season’s growth

  • Continue to ventilate greenhouses on warmer, sunnier days or give it a pre-Spring clean inside and out and ensure that the glass is clean to allow as much light in as possible

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Soft-neck Garlic and Onion sets

Relaxing

What's Looking Good in the Garden

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  • Snowdrops, Galanthus nivalis

  • Snow

  • Cyclamen coum

  • Gorse

  • Skimmia 'Magic marlot'

  • Narcissi

  • Cornus alba 'Sibirica'

  • Caster oil seed, Ricinus communis

  • Common Ivy, Hedera helix

  • Crocus 'Victor Hugo'

  • Helebore

  • Pieris japonica 'Ralto Rose'

  • Daphne, Daphne odora aureomarginata

  • Hylotelephium (Sedum) 'Indian Chief'

  • Catkins on Hazel, Corylus avellana

  • Sweet box, Sarcococca confusa

  • Crocus 'Orange Monarch'

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Thinking

This month's wordsearch with some topical words

Visiting and Seeing

Places to Go and Things to Do - In Person or On-Line

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Sharing

What's been happening on our Facebook page, Blog, and Elsewhere

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Remembering

The Old 'Potting Shed' Pages

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