Garden Checklist: 10 Tasks to Give Your Garden a Head Start Before Spring

Are you ticking off the days on the lead up to spring like a kid waiting for Christmas? We are! Fortunately there's lots to be preparing in the garden right now and as the days grow longer, our excitement for the coming growing season grows stronger too!

In this week's episode Ben shares ten gardening tasks that you can crack on with to get ahead before the growing season.

For ideas of what you can sow now, watch these next:
Sow These Seeds in February

Sow These Seeds in January

Videos mentioned:

For more winter jobs you can catch up on, here's our January Jobs video

Seed Starting Masterclass

How to Plant a Bare-Root Fruit Tree

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[suepowlesland]

Your joy at finding the lost shoe and extra cucumber seed had me laughing 😅. My favorite thing about Saturday mornings is knowing I have a new video from you. Thanks again Ben.

[OnYerBike]

Hi Ben. Watching from france after retiring from the UK. After 30 years of spreadsheets I’m a total newbie but learning all about gardening from your wonderful videos. Hubby has built me a beautiful greenhouse and I’ve wrote that saying on the wall “out into the garden I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”. And it’s so true. Thank you so much, your enthusiasm is infectious and the videos to the point.

[QisGoogle]

Ben, on the dullest of days bringing great joy & fantastic advice to thousands of people around the Earth!
Thank you 🤗🍓🌻🩴

[valeriezendiver]

Your videos are consistently educational, entertaining, and encouraging; I learn something new each time. Thank you for your upbeat, infectious attitude!

[kws]

Thank you too. I’m 66 now and in pension so I hope to have some more time for gardening.

[dianadubray-fox]

You know what I absolutely loved, it was seeing Ben visiting Huw Richards made my day that did seeing two like minded people no rivalry bloody loved it 😊

[escapetoruralwales]

Great info on keeping greenhouse ventilated during the whole month rather than just those hot days. Makes complete sense now you say it 👍

[SeptemberVaudrey]

Ben--I love that your garden is focused on function and production. And you use found materials like the glass pane. Also, I love that no one edited out the bit where you found your shoe! Thanks for keeping it real.

[davidreilly]

Use plastic containers such as Quality Street tubs with lids on, dril holes in the bottom sides of the tub, Bury it to the depth of lid level, then you can easily top up the tub with more kitchen waste, the worms will visit the tub and then go back into the bed and cast.

[TheSandelinSofa]

And I love that you have so calming videos, not hectic music in the background, but calming and not too loud. 🤗

[SoulsJourney]

I so love your enthusiasm and sense of humor. 😊👍

[charlaemery]

I SO appreciate your minimal advertising! I am leaving so many previously favorite garden vloggers who now have ads every 3 minutes! Thank you, thank you! Zone 8 Northeast Texas with very similar planting times.

[Kelson]

You are EASILY the best gardening channel on YouTube. Keep doing exactly what you’re doing. I love your videos!

[Candy-lewk]

Love your enthusiasm for gardening. And you explain so easily even a child can understand. Wonderful. Next generation will benefit!

[PatrickKazmierczak-ji]

I can’t wait until it warms up! My big winter jobs were creating no dig beds and a 3 bay compost bin with roof and guttering. However, in the greenhouse, got lettuce (various stages), carrots, sweet peas, onions and a few shallots. I’ve had my allotment for 3 years now and couldn’t imagine life without it 😊

[foxy.]

thanks for all your clips, advice, cheers

[kayluley]

such a motivation....lovely videos in these depressing times

[trapped]

Your upbeat videos are like a ray of At this time of year, I am so anxious to see green leaves and
Thanks again for all of the great info.
May the Lord Bless you and yours!!!!

[michelleodonovan]

Great video once again! Very inspiring 👏

[hopedaniels]

You are like the gardening version of Chef Ramsey with the excitement you have in your voice as you explain to us what you do and how you do it❤❤. Love the passion you have!