Gardening: Here's your weekend to-do list | Brian Kidd

•If you love snowdrops but have never been able to grow them, now’s the time to plant them ‘in the green’. You will find them advertised in gardening magazines and even at your local market in bunches wrapped in newspaper.You will also see them at your garden centre in pots in full bloom – wow, instant impact! Plant them in groups of two or three and they will flower and produce seeds which will grow alongside the parent plants. Drifts of snowdops look so beautiful.

•Brush the lawn with a broom. This will enable you to pick up lots of bits and pieces which can go straight into the compost bin and the lawn will look an awful lot smarter afterwards.

•Sow single seeds of early cauliflower in insert cells in a cold greenhouse. You won’t need more than 12 because they all come to fruition at the same time. Sow another batch in the same way in a month’s time.

•Green-seeded broad beans can be sown now in a cold greenhouse or cold frame. Plant one seed in each insert cell and they will germinate in about three weeks. Don’t over-water the compost otherwise the beans will rot. Remember, all types of green-seeded broad beans are not hardy, so, don’t sow them outdoors until the first week in April.

•Begonia tubers can be planted in the greenhouse now.

•Seeds of fragrant exhibition sweet peas can be sown now. Sow single seeds in deep pots. They need no heat but ensure they are well protected from mice. Mice eat sweet pea seeds as if there’s no tomorrow.

•Set yourself another target: plan to get as much digging done on the vegetable garden as possible and continue to leave large clods so the frost can break the soil into a good tilth.

•If you are not happy with your compost, take out a trench for runner beans. Put the compost into the trench, cover it with soil and the soil’s bacteria will rot the material. Fork over some soil and start another compost bin.