What to do in the garden in February?

February continues in the same vein as January. Low temperatures require sheltering part of the vegetable garden and ornamental garden from the cold, while pruning work takes place outside of periods of frost. In February: Take inventory of vegetable seeds and place orders for seeds and potatoes. Keep protections on winter vegetables in place to harvest in all weather. In the vegetable garden and garden: Aerate the soil using a broadfork or spade. Finish pruning and cleaning trees, citrus fruits, peach trees, and small fruits. Apply mastic or healing tar to wounds. Hill up, start artichokes depending on the weather. Add a basic fertilizer to the vegetable garden, prepare the plots. Force sorrel, blanch dandelions. Incorporate crushed soil improvers, manure, or compost on the surface. Take advantage of this period to lightly plow your rose beds and give them a specific fertilizer. Also start maintaining your lawn, by scarifying and aerating, and give it a specific fertilizer. February sowing Under cover or in a small heated greenhouse, you can already start a certain number of sowings in February. If it freezes, remember to cover your shelters at night. For indoor sowing, make sure to expose them to light to prevent them from spinning. There is still time in the orchard to plant your fruit trees and prune your small fruits. Sowing aromatic and medicinal plants in February Aromatics: Agastache, White Chives, Tarragon, Medicinals: Hyssop, Lemon Balm, Rue. Vegetable sowings in February Sowing in a heated greenhouse (25°C): eggplants, chilies, peppers, tomatoes, stevia rebaudiana in a warm greenhouse. Sowing under cover: artichokes, celery, radishes, carrots, spring cabbages, lettuce, parsley, summer leeks, the February assortment. Sowing in open ground, well exposed: broad bean, spinach, onion, peas. February plantings February vegetable plantings Spring garlic, shallots, onion, rhubarb, early potato (in mild climate). Strawberry plants. Small fruits: blackcurrant, redcurrant, raspberry, gooseberry, blackberry, blueberry, cranberry, honeysuckle. Orchard: apricot, cherry, quince, fig, nashi, medlar, peach, nectarine, pear, apple, plum. Ornamental garden: Bulbs: Lilies, Allium Oreophilum, Daylily. Rose bushes. Harvest in February. Harvest cabbage, spinach, cutting lettuce, lamb's lettuce, parsnips, leeks.