Are you wanting to grow some delicious fruit in your garden this year? Follow our February Fruit Garden jobs to get those delicious fruit.
Do you need to know the jobs for the fruit garden in February? Here we will provide you with all the garden tasks and garden chores for February.
Find out the gardening jobs this month. Why not create yourself a gardening to do list by month and tick them off once completed.
- Start forcing rhubarb by placing a bucket or a bin over the crown. This will encourage the rhubarb to grow faster.
- If you are wanting an earlier crop of strawberries cover the crop with cloches, this will keep them a lot warmer.
- Prune blackcurrants, gooseberries and redcurrants back this month ready for the new growth to start growing.
- This is the last chance to prune Apple and pear trees while they are still dormant.
- Put a slow release fertiliser round fruit bushes. This will help in the coming season. This will encourage a bumper crop. Remember to protect them from birds as they will also like eating them.
Apple and Pear Trees
In February winter-wash your apple and pear trees. This will hopefully stop red spider eggs.
Peach and Nectarine Trees
Prune newly planted fan-trained trees by cutting them back the shoots to around 12-18 inches. Spray them with copper fungicide when they start to form their buds – this will stop peach leaf curl.
Plum, Damson, Cherry
Prune newly planted fan-trained trees by cutting them back the shoots to around 12-18 inches.
Raspberry
You can prune established autumn varieties close to the ground before spring arrives.
Strawberry
At the end of February cover your strawberry plants with clothes if you are wanting an early crop of strawberries in the garden. Don’t cover any earlier as this will encourage the leaves rather than the fruit.
Find more jobs to do around the garden via the link below.
- Jobs for the flower garden in February
- Jobs for the vegetable garden in February
- Jobs for the fruit garden in February
- Jobs for the lawn in February
- Jobs for the Greenhouse in February
- Jobs for the herb garden in February
- Jobs for Trees and Shrubs in February
- Jobs for the Hedge in February
