February Gardening To-Do List

Here's our pick of gardening jobs for February! They will leave your garden in great shape for the coming summer :) Sowing and planting

• Sow first early potatoes end of month and suitable cultivar of garlic if you missed the autumn planting
• Start sowing summer bedding and veg seeds indoor
• Start Dahlia tubers in pots if a 10C temperature can be maintained
• Move seed potatoes into light for chitting
• Plant trees, shrubs, roses

Pruning, dividing and cutting back

• Lift, divide, replant herbaceous plants
• Prune woody plants like Buddleja hard
• Prune winter flowering shrubs that have finished flowering
• Renovate overgrown deciduous hedges
• Lawn can get first cut if ground dry
• Finish cutting back deciduous grasses left uncut over winter

General maintenance

• For plants overwintering under glass, make sure all dead or drying foliage is removed to discourage grey mould. Improve ventilation if possible
• Fertilize rose beds with well-rotted farm yard manure
• Maintain tools
• Prepare beds for veg crops if ground dry
• Harvest last parsnips, leeks, swedes, beetroot

The Garden Pavilion is bursting with seeds and bulbs at the moment. Come in and treat yourself to the flower and vegetable seeds or amazing flowering bulbs on offer. See you here soon. Mary, Horticulturalist at Powerscourt Garden Pavilion