Monthly Gardening Tips

Monthly Gardening Tips

A Year in the Garden


Our gardening guide will help you to remember and to plan what needs to be done in the garden each month, to make the upkeep of your garden easier and to ensure your garden looks its very best throughout the year. If you are a gardening enthusiast or simply taking your first steps in caring for a garden, our comprehensive guide can assist you.


Alternatively, you can call into our garden centres where our knowledgeable and helpful staff will compliment this guide in offering advice and helping you to choose plants, shrubs or products for your garden. There has never been a better time to start growing your own. If you want to enjoy great tasting, fresh, organic food and save money too you’ll find everything you need at Ashwoods.


From seeds and young plants, to essential tools and equipment we can help get you growing. And who better than Ashwoods to give you a helping hand – we’ve been sowing and growing since 1925 so we really know our onions! Most of the questions that we are asked each week relate to when certain tasks need to take place in the garden. To help you, we have produced a gardening calendar. Month by month, The Gardening Year lists the jobs to be carried out in the garden and the greenhouse

Check out below for helpful monthly tips....


03 Nov, 2020
The slower winter months have passed and by mid-March we’re ready to welcome Spring and start the new season in earnest! As the weather improves our gardens stir into growth - these are the jobs to complete now:
03 Nov, 2020
A busy month is ahead in the garden, as the weather begins to warm, days are a little longer and blossom surrounds us! Now's the time to get sowing and planting.....
03 Nov, 2020
May has arrived and it really is a lovely month in the garden! Days are getting warmer and longer, we're surrounded by trees in leaf and blossom and our pots, borders and baskets burst with wonderful colour! We can really feel that Summer is on the way and it’s time to tidy up spring plants, plant out summer flowers and get planning for Autumn...
03 Nov, 2020
As Summer arrives, we can relax outdoors enjoying the long, warm days surrounded by our gardens in full growth, colour and fragrance! There’s plenty to harvest in the vegetable garden and keeping on top of weeds is a key task!
03 Nov, 2020
The garden is in full bloom, full of mid summer colour, texture and fragrance! Now is the time to maintain the blooms, providing your garden with the care it needs to prevent drying out during the warmest months
03 Nov, 2020
With long, hot summer days, August is the time to relax and enjoy the beauty of the garden. Regular watering, feeding and tidying are keys to keeping your garden looking beautiful... .
03 Nov, 2020
September is the perfect time to take stock of your garden after the busy summer period. Now is the time to establish new plants and make plans for the coming seasons... .
03 Nov, 2020
In October, with colder nights and shorter days, we can enjoy the last splashes of autumn colour in our beds and borders. With the prospect of first frosts, there are plenty of jobs to be done in the garden....
03 Nov, 2020
Winter is on the way.... As the days shorten, we enjoy the array of autumn colour as leaves fall and shrubs reveal berries and can be busy with these jobs:
03 Nov, 2020
As our gardens quieten and still for the winter period, we can still enjoy them on milder winter days to complete the following important jobs: 
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