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It just means you have to pick your days when the weather is favourable before you venture outside. You may have to wrap up warm, long johns, extra jumpers and thick socks. But if it is dry and not freezing there are lots of jobs you can do around your garden. Dig over your vegetable plot, dig nice and deep, and add plenty of well rotted manure or compost. It will all break down to a nice texture over the winter, just ready for sowing in early spring. Dig over those beds and borders that have not been dug for the last couple of years. And add some well rotted manure or compost while you’re at it. This is a good time to dig any new beds and borders or a new vegetable plot. Don’t forget the manure or compost. You can generally tidy up your garden. Remove all those annuals and biennials that finished flowering lon ago, they really do look a mess and will just harbour slugs, snails and unwanted diseases if left. So dig them out. Clear around your perennial plants, remove old spent leaves and gently loosen the soil surface around them. This helps to break up compacted soil and allows air and water to get down to the roots. While your at it remove all those weeds that are still hanging on. Dig them out if necessary, you don’t want any roots left that will shoot into life next spring. Clear up all those fallen tree leaves.
Tidy up any shrubs, bushes or hedges by pruning or trimming. This a good time of year to do this. Nows a good time to do any hard landscaping. Paths, garden walls, bases for your new potting shed or greenhouse. Use this time of year to your advantage and you will find winter gardening really pays dividends through spring, summer and autumn, fall. Don’t walk on soil that is frozen, covered with snow or too wet as you will destroy its structure. This is especially important if you have a clay soil. Winter gardening can be a good time of year, out and in amongst all those show off winter flowering plants. There are lots of plants that flower throughout winter and some will even flower into spring. Amongst the best
Cyclamen
Heathers in groups make a real winter garden display. They bring what could be a barren landscape into a pleasant rolling show. There are many different coluored heathers, yellow, lilac, blue, white. Most are low growing but some are taller and will add height. All are excellent ground cover plants. Grow them in groups of the same colour for the very best effect. Heathers in a garden plot just on their own make a splendid display. They are really worth growing for some autumn and winter colour. Some good shrubs for winter colour
Cornus You can still do winter gardening, but from the comfort and warmth of your own favourite easy chair. Plan your garden for the coming seasons.
Spring will be here before you now it. And spring is the time of year to start sowing seeds. So go through those seed catalogues and order your seeds. Browse through those plant catalogues for spring and summer plants and order them now. They wont be delivered until they are ready but get your order in early to make sure you don’t miss out. A good source for seed and young plants is online. There are hundreds of online stores now that specialise in seeds or young plants. Buying online is a good way to buy your seeds and plants. Most online stores have a huge selection, usually far more than your local garden center or garden nursery. Another good point of buying online is you don’t have to leave the comfort of your own home. Your seeds and plants will be delivered straight to your door and all you have to do is unpack them and sow or plant them. Well there you are, winter gardening can be just as exciting and as pleasurable as gardening at any other time of the year. Winter flowering bulbs.....
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Hellebore
Anemone
Pansies
Viloas
Iris
Crocus
Adonis
Narcissus
And don’t forget heathers.
There are lost of shrubs that flower in winter and they too bring colour and relief to dark dreary days.
Chosya
Eleanus
Euonymus
Garrya
Holly
Mahonia
Photinia
Pyracantha
Saracococca
Skimmia
Viburnum
Winter Honeysuckle
Winter Jasmine
But what if the weather is wet or freezing or even snowing.
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