Top Ten Winter Gardening Tips

Here are our Top Ten Winter Gardening Tips to prepare your garden for the cold months ahead:

• Empty any of your pots that are not frost-proof and move them under cover to protect them from the winter weather.
• Have all you garden machinery serviced during the winter season and drain all excess fuel.
• Avoid walking on frost covered grass.
• Plant any bare-root or pot-grown ornamental deciduous tress.
• Check all tree ties and stakes are secure before winter winds hit.
• Sow seeds of early cabbage varieties indoors, learn more about planting cabbage.
• Sow broad beans outdoors for an early crop.
• Plant onions and garlic in your vegetable garden in December, this will be ready to harvest in early spring.
• Lift and divide any perennial flowers when we get a good day.
• Tidy up your strawberry beds by removing unwanted runners, old leaves and developing weeds.