Guides
How to do the work.
The methods the app’s care plans stand on, written out in full — why each job matters, when it is due, and how to do it well.
Pruning
- Pruning principles (the 3 Ds)
- Roses: hybrid tea & floribunda
- Roses: shrub & climbing
- Clematis Group 1 (early)
- Clematis Group 2 (large, early summer)
- Clematis Group 3 (late)
- Hydrangea: mophead & lacecap
- Hydrangea: paniculata & arborescens
- Lavender
- Buddleia
- Wisteria
- Apple & pear (free-standing)
- Plum, cherry & stone fruit
- Soft fruit (currants, gooseberry, raspberry)
- Spring-flowering shrubs
- Summer-flowering shrubs
- Formal hedges
- Deadheading
- Cutting back after flowering
- Deadheading soft growth
- Removing old and dead foliage
- Pinching out and side-shooting
- Houseplant tidying and thinning
- Stopping and topping
Watering
Mulching
Sowing seed
Feeding
Frost protection
Under cover
Houseplants
Planting
- Bare-root tree or shrub
- Container-grown tree or shrub
- Plug or module vegetable and bedding
- Planting out hardened-off seedlings
- Dry bulbs in the ground
- Strawberry runners and soft fruit
- Climber against a wall or support
- Herbaceous perennial or flower
- Aquatic or marginal pond plant
- Potting up or repotting a houseplant