- Prune spring-flowering shrubs over three years old as they finish flowering
- Sow sweet peas directly into their flowering position
- Sprout maincrop potatoes and plant sprouted tubers of early varieties
- Sow and plant out vegetables including beetroot, broad beans, carrots, celeriac, onions, peas, spinach and swedes
- Sow tomato seeds in a heated propagator or on a warm windowsill to grow outdoors when danger of frost has passed
- Tidy up ivy growing on walls, using shears
- Clear remaining crops such as leek and celery so the ground can be prepared for new ones
- Keep the kids amused by sowing some giant sunflowers with them, under glass or outdoors when conditions allow
- Give roses a top dressing of fertiliser
- Thin early sowings of lettuce
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