Trees and Shrubs
• Continue to plant trees, shrubs and roses if the ground is not frozen or waterlogged.
• Continue to prune back shrubs like Dogwoods, Buddleia and Spiraea.
• Anticipate gales  and check stakes and ties on trees. Replace if necessary.

Flowers
• Sow hardy annuals outside late in the month if soil surface is warm and dry but moist below.
• Lift and divide congested herbaceous plants. Replace inferior varieties with new improved cultivars.
• Plant out Sweet Peas using canes or a netting clad frame for support.
• Put down slug pellets regularly.

Fruit
• Apply a dressing of general fertiliser to top fruit and hoe lightly in.
• Clear strawberry beds of dead leaves.
• Continue to plant tree, bush and cane fruits.

Vegetables
• Plant Onion Sets, Shallots and Garlic when the ground is workable.
• Plant early potatoes in mid-March in the south and late March in the north.
• Sow Carrots, Brussels, Peas, Leeks, Summer Cauliflower and early Beetroot. Warm the ground with cloches first if the soil is cold or wet.
• Plant Asparagus on enriched soil.

Lawns
• Apply a liquid moss killer or lawn sand to kill moss. Rake out dead moss and debris when the treatment has worked.
• Cut the lawn with the blades set high.
• Use a combination weed and feed late this month or in April.

Greenhouse
• Sow bedding plants like Alyssum, Ageratum, Busy Lizzie, Stocks, Nemesia, Petunia, Rudbeckia, Marigolds, Verbena and Zinnia.
• Sow seeds of Tomatoes for outdoors and to crop in unheated greenhouses.
• Prick out seedlings from earlier sowings. Pot up plants to keep them growing steadily.
• Stock up on pots, trays and compost.
• Sow Cucumbers, Aubergines and Peppers or buy plants in later.

Houseplants
• Increase watering gradually but don't swamp your plants.
• Move pot bound plants into larger pots.

Don't Forget
• A heated propagator will give optimum germination of seeds.
• Kill moss and slime on paths and paving and weeds on drives.