Top 10 Jobs For Early Spring Success
Amateur Gardening|March 14, 2020
Try to do a little bit every day to get healthy indoor and garden plants, says Ruth
Ruth
Top 10 Jobs For Early Spring Success

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.

This story is from the March 14, 2020 edition of Amateur Gardening.

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