True up or trim lawn edges. Fill hollows and level humps. Control worms. Repair bare patches. Apply fertilizer.
Trees and shrubs:
Prune forsythias. Plant evergreens. Clip ivy on walls.
Roses:
Underplant roses with attractive carpeting plants. Apply a residual weedkiller to rose beds and kill perennial weeds. Spray against pests and diseases; apply a mulch.
Hardly border flowers:
Stake plants before they grow too tall. Deadhead daffodils. Plant summer flowering bulbs.
Flowers from seeds:
Keep on sowing hardy annuals in the open when the soil is workable. Sow half hardy annuals in a frame, under cloches or in a cold greenhouse. Sow flowers for cutting; also ornamental grasses. Weed and thin seedlings.
Fruit:
Finish planting strawberries. Prune soft fruit. Mulch fruit trees and bushes. Spray gooseberries.
Based on "Gardener's Calendar" by Roy Hay adapted for Portugal.
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