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Gardening jobs to do during the heat of February
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Keith and Elisabeth
Today’s focus is perennial plants - which ones can you rely on to thrive in the summer heat?
Gardening jobs during the heat of February.
- Check watering for maintenance and installing additional sprinklers where required
- Adding organic wetting agents such as ECO Hydrate.
- Broadforking for all your garden to get as much air, moisture and goodness deep down into the soil. Keith recommends F.D Ryan's Broadforks for this job
- Consider soil improvement with Clyde’s lignite
- Using Seasol or other seaweed products to help heat-stressed plants
- Using a product such as MycoGold and watering this into holes created with a broadfork will help with moisture retention
- February is also a great time for doing some Summer pruning of fruit trees
- Keeping your eyes out for pest and disease is another very important job for February, particularly powdery mildew and leaf hopper . ECO Neem (best used on its own in Summer, mix with Eco Oil at other times of the year)
- Make sure your lawns are kept cut on a higher mowing setting over the summer months.
- If you love eating Brussel Sprouts like Keith does, then this is the month to plant your seedlings into your well-prepared vegetable beds.
So there are lots of things you can be doing in the garden in February, and these are just a few.
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