Graham's gardening week

Feed

Cut back overgrown shrubs (but not conifers) hard during the next fortnight to promote bushy new growth from the base.

Protect hostas from being eaten by slugs with a few, but only a few, slug pellets.

Rake the lawn with an electric lawn raker (from the hire shop). The amount of dead grass and moss it tears out will amaze you. Then give the lawn its first cut of the season.

Deadhead pansies, violas, daisies, polyanthus, primroses and early dwarf wallflowers in tubs to keep them flowering prolifically.

Water windowsill cacti to start them growing again after their winter rest.