What to do in the garden this month, February 2025

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For starters

pruning roses, wisteria, autumn raspberries, anything else that needs winter pruning
sow tomatoes, sweet peas
if you haven’t already, order seeds.

Yes. Decide which your main stems are, and cut back whippy side branches to about three buds. Helps encourage flowers. But as you’ve found out, it won’t hurt it if you don’t prune

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/wisteria/pruning-guide

General rule of thumb - prune after flowering. Shrubs that flower early in the year are usually flowering on last year’s growth, so if you prune now, you’ll lose the flowers for a year. Shrubs that flower late in the year are usually flowering on this year’s growth so if you prune them now, they still have time to grow and make flowers.

What’s a living ditch? I’ve not heard that term, and google isn’t helping

Sorry, also known as a dead hedge

Lots of planning has been going on here for garden and allotment.
have most of my seeds ready.
have ordered a few more - artichoke, chilli and Korean mint.
seed compost ordered - I have gone for sylvagrow and got some perlite too. I need to up my game with seed sowing as usually I’m very slap dash and have too variable results.
Got a couple of new toys - a nice folding saw for pruning an overgrown apple and a digital max/min thermometer. I’m checking the night temps of various locations in the house. My east facing conservatory was 3c this morning so no wonder I usually have such poor germination when I start early, despite the heated prop.
plan is to get sweet peas, leeks and chillies started soon indoors and then grow on indoors for now.
things will move to the conservatory and mini and full size greenhouse when I run out of space.