Activities for Your Personal Garden Maintenance

General Maintenance:
✅ Clear weeds & add mulch to retain moisture
✅ Tidy borders & remove winter debris
✅ Start composting & turn existing compost

Lawn Care:
✅ Rake & aerate compacted areas
✅ Apply spring lawn feed & moss killer
✅ Start mowing on dry days, high setting

Flower Beds & Borders:
✅ Deadhead early spring blooms (daffodils, crocuses)
✅ Divide & replant perennials (snowdrops, hostas)
✅ Sow hardy annuals (poppies, cornflowers, calendula)
✅ Prune Hydrangea macrophylla (only remove old flower heads & weak stems)
✅ Continue pruning roses to shape & encourage strong growth

Vegetable Garden:
✅ Sow carrots, onions, beetroot, spinach, & lettuce
✅ Start tomatoes, peppers, & chillies indoors
✅ Plant early potatoes & onion sets
✅ Plant broad beans in prepared soil

Fruit Garden:
✅ Prune apple & pear trees before buds break
✅ Mulch around fruit trees & bushes
✅ Protect strawberry plants with fleece or cloches

Greenhouse & Indoor Plants:
✅ Increase watering & ventilation on warmer days
✅ Check for pests & start feeding houseplants
✅ Pot up dahlias & summer flowering bulbs

Wildlife & Water:
✅ Clean bird feeders & provide fresh water
✅ Install a pond or add a shallow dish for wildlife
✅ Leave some wild areas for early pollinators