Here’s what you need to do…

• For early vegetable crops its essential to warm the soil before sowing, cover seedbeds with polythene or cloches.
•  Complete pruning of climbing roses and rose bushes before new growth becomes too strong.
•  Cut back ornamental grasses and other perennials left for winter interest, pulling out dead flower stalks.
•  If weather is mild enough to allow the soil to be worked, lift and divide clumps of herbaceous perennials replanting immediately wherever possible.
•  Prune Mahonia once flowering is finished, by removing spent flowers at their bases.  Overlong shoots can also be cut back at this time of year.