With a windy and wet weekend ahead, there’s still plenty you can be getting on with in the garden, albeit in between the squalls!

  • Give the fruit and veg that you’ve stored a once over, checking for rot and pests
  • If you’re missing the growing activity of spring, try a mushroom kit, they’re great fun and have tasty results
  • It’s a good time to clean the greenhouse, using disinfectant will eliminate pest wishing to overwinter
  • Cut old raspberry canes to the ground after fruiting as they bear fruit on new wood
  • Tidy up strawberry plants for winter
  • It’s not too late to plant daffodil, tulip, anemone, aconite, carnassia, crocus, fritillary and hyacinth bulbs and dream of spring
  • If you’re missing the growing activity of spring, try a mushroom kit, they’re great fun and have tasty results
  • It’s a good time to clean the greenhouse, using disinfectant will eliminate pest wishing to overwinter
  • Check locks, doors and windows of sheds and outbuildings, making sure that they are secure
  • Consider whether you have enough water butts – this weekend looks likely to fill them!

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