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JOBS TO DO IN JANUARY

• There is still time to plant fruit; specialist nurseries have a much wider selection than garden centres.

• Start off early potatoes by laying tubers (or egg box) to 'chit' in a cool, light but frost free place.

• Make sure vulnerable plants are protected with dry mulches over their roots. For additional protection, wrap plants in fleece in the coldest spells.

• Complete winter digging of new vegetable plots. Empty beds of the debris of old crops as the weather permits.

• Plant dwarf bulbous plants such as winter aconits, snowdros and dwarf iris under winter-flowering witch hazel, mahonia and tree heather to extend their season of interest into spring.

• Sow broad beans, lettuce, radishes, salad onions and spinach under cover.