Gardening Tasks

The success of a garden depends largely on doing the relevant tasks at the correct time. It can be an absolute pain to go out on a cold, damp Spring day to prune the roses, but you will be rewarded with a fabulous show of blooms from June onwards.

Nobody feels like going out to tidy beds and cutting down straggly herbaceous plants when the temperature is in single figures and the wind is blowing around your ears, but you can sit back smug later in the year when your garden looks an absolute picture.

Personally, I am more of a fair weather gardener and therefore I’m always running, trying to catch up on tasks that should have been done six weeks ago. Am I out there now pruning the last of the shrubs? No, I’m sitting here where it is warm and dry, writing this blog. I tell myself that writing the blog will remind me of all the tasks I should be doing outside, and so it will – but will it actually make me do the work? Only time will tell!