February monthly gardening activities

Explore our monthly activities to do in the garden with your children and young people in February.

  1. Prepare your vegetable seed beds for sowing, by covering them in fleece or cloches to help warm the soil.
  2. Cover your fruit and vegetable crops with netting to keep birds off them.
  3. Chit early potato tubers. This will help the seed potatoes to sprout before they are planted.
  4. Prune hardy, evergreen shrubs.
  5. Prune winter flowering shrubs, but leave them longer if they have berries on to provide a food source for birds.
  6. Sow sweet peas in deep pots and place them somewhere sunny, such as a windowsill or greenhouse.
  7. From mid-month, you can sow tomatoes and cucumbers for greenhouse growing.
  8. Harvest cabbage, leeks and the last of your kale leaves.
  9. Plant bare rooted trees and bushes.
  10. Divide bulbs and plant those that need planting out 'in the green' such as snowdrops.

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Start sowing your carrots and planting summer bulbs.

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Chit and plant early potatoes and harvest your spring onions.

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Celebrating Children's Mental Health Week (5-11 February)

Nurture your pupils' self-belief through growing pea shoots with our resource, The Creative Gardener. Split into three stages, this resource explores the sensory elements of plants and encourages reflection through mindful activities. At the end of the project, you'll have a mini harvest of pea shoots they can be proud of.

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More ways to explore the outdoors

Use our fun craft and wildlife activities to learn more about the outdoors, growing and nature.

  • As you start to prepare your vegetable beds, create fun cane toppers to put out when plants are growing, helping to keep your garden safe for pupils.
  • Explore what happens under the earth by making a mini-wormery. Pupils will be able to learn where a worm likes to live and explore how they keep soil and plants healthy.
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