• 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