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- Our gardening tips for February
- Working in the kitchen garden
- Tasks in ornamental plants and woody plants
February is a good month for cutting hedges and shrubs
Our gardening tips for February
Far from any weather forecasts and ground coffee readings, we have consulted to the phenological calendar, which is oriented not in the traditional four, but at ten seasons. Phenology, an ancient Greek science that is also the subject of the German Weather Service, investigates long-term the periodically recurring developmental characteristics of the free nature and derives therefrom certain events and sequences of the so-called pointer plants.
Instead of relying on a fixed date when gardening, certain works are based solely on the nature observed over many years. Unlike the calendrical or astronomical seasons, the phenological ones do not set the most distinctive garden appointments exactly to the day, but update them year after year and according to the climatic region. For simplicity and clarity, we look at the whole best in a table.
Specifically for February and for our current climate-moderate Central European region, the following should be tackled in February:
Working in the kitchen garden
Tasks in ornamental plants and woody plants
If you have not been in the garden for a long time now: Be careful during all work on and around the flower beds, because the first tips of the bulbous flowers are already sprouting out of the ground ... Exactly the time when garden owners are also preparing the nesting box for the birds should. If the weather stays that way, the feathered journeymen will pierce the looser soil for worms again. First and foremost the starlings who have already received a special tribute this year: