Featured in the March 2009 handbook.

• Complete rose pruning.

• Preventative spraying against fungal and insect pests.

• Divide and replant overcrowded perennials.

• Plant gladiolus corms.

• Plant out sweet peas raised earlier.

• Prune summer and late flowering clematis.

• Cut back ivy especially from around gutters

In the Greenhouse:

• Sow tomatoes for outside growing.

• Sow half hardy and tender annuals for summer bedding,

• Sow cucumbers, melons, and aubergines.

• Keep a careful eye on seedlings sown earlier - in particular watch for 'damping-off'