What to do in your garden during February

In temperate summer-rainfall regions do the following in your garden during February.

Plant & Sow

Annuals

Sow all summer-flowering annuals like:

Vegetables

Sow vegetables like:

Garden maintenance

 General garden maintenance

• Spray apples, pears and quinces against codling moth, and peaches against fruit fly.
  
• Deadhead daisy bushes regularly to prolong their flowering period; remember to disbud dahlias at regular intervals.
  
• Keep the soil well mulched.
  
• Consider installing a rainwater tank. Many container-grown plants do best if watered with rainwater.
  
• Stake dahlias and water and fertilize them regularly.
  
• Mulch roses well.
  
• Cut back chrysanthemums.
  
• Deadhead roses regularly.
  
• Sow lawn seed.
  
• Water citrus trees well every three weeks and spray against citrus psylla; water other fruit trees thoroughly every second week.

For February maintenance tips on watering, pruning, pests and disease, fertilizing and much more visit our countrywide maintenance guide.