Top 10 Jobs For Early Spring Success

Try to do a little bit every day to get healthy indoor and garden plants, says Ruth

- Ruth

1 A mild winter and the arrival of warmer weather means there will be more pests around than usual, so start fighting them now using some organic methods like a beer trap for slugs.

2 Bag a bargain! These pot-bound chives cost me 25p apiece, but with their roots teased out and sitting in larger pots filled with fresh compost they are growing happily.

3 Carefully weed between your autumn-planted allium crops to remove unwanted plant competition. Re-use pest-free and disease-free crop containers by adding new compost and lots of fertiliser such as chicken manure pellets.

4 The mild winter has also been a boon for the weeds, so hoe over your beds every week to keep them at bay and make sure you remove every part of perennial weeds.