ADAPT Gardening Tip

ADAPT food Group gardening tip for March

Now is the time to divide and increase your snowdrops. They much prefer to be divided and moved 'in the green' rather than dry bulbs in autumn. Ideal time is as the flowers fade.

Lift a clump. Separate the bulbs. Replace about 12 in the original place. Take six and plant where you wish to extend your snowdrops. Carefully plant to their original depth. Next year they will be bit sparse but by two years they will have formed a good clump.

Hybrid Tea (HT) and Floribunda Rosie should be pruned now if not already. Take out all thin and weak growth. Reduce stronger growth by a third to a half in most cases. Very strong growers may be reduced even further. Always angle the the cut and make it about 2.5Cms (1inch) above an
outward pointing bud. After pruning feed with a specialist Rose fertiliser.

Shrub roses only need tidying up and taking out any dead wood and reducing any over vigorous growths. Climbing HTs and Floribundas similar to bush but allow for upward growth. Ramblers should have been pruned in autumn as they flower on new wood.

Think about seed sowing and follow instructions on the packets

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