The RHS recommend the following top 10 gardening tips for the month February:
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Prepare vegetable seed beds, and sow some vegetables under cover
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Chit potato tubers
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Protect blossom on apricots, nectarines and peaches
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Net fruit and vegetable crops to keep the birds off
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Prune winter-flowering shrubs that have finished flowering
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Divide bulbs such as snowdrops, and plant those that need planting ‘in the green’
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Prune Wisteria
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Prune hardy evergreen hedges and renovate overgrown deciduous hedges
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Prune conservatory climbers such as bougainvillea
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Cut back deciduous grasses left uncut over the winter, remove dead grass from evergreen grasses
