- Plant dormant rhubarb crowns.
- Plant pot-grown roses, hardy trees and shrubs, climbers and hedging plants.
- Tidy up ivy, summerflowering jasmine and honeysuckles.
- Use a hand fork to weed the rock garden and then top it off with new pea gravel or chippings, tucked gently under the rosettes to stop the damp rotting them.
- Perk up your pots by planting new spring bedding including pansies, polyanthus and forget- me-nots.
- Plant onion sets, lowering them into the soil so that they just disappear from view and spacing them around 10cm (4in) apart.
- Start tying in young shoots of blackberries when you see new growth appearing.
- Pot up plug plants which may have outgrown their original modules.
- Take cuttings from border perennials when the first shoots appear and reach 5-8cm (2-3in) long.
- If the weather is warm and you see fish are active, begin feeding them with wheatgerm pond fish food.
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