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Growing guides
Month by month
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The weather's warmer, the days longer and sunnier and the April showers make this a good growing month.
Sowing outdoors
Beetroot Broad Beans Broccoli Brussel Sprouts
Cabbage Calabrese Carrots Cauliflower
Celeriac Kohl Rabi Leeks Lettuce
Onion seeds Parsnips Peas (early) Radish
Rocket Spinach Spring Onions Swiss Chard
Turnips
Sowing under glass
Aubergines Beans Chillies Courgette
Cucumbers Marrow Melons Pumpkins
Squash Sweet peppers Sweetcorn Tomatoes
Planting out
Asparagus Crowns Cabbage Plants Globe Artichokes Jerusalem Artichokes
Onion sets Potatoes (maincrop) Rhubarb Strawberries
Harvesting
Broccoli Carrots Lettuce Peas
Spinach Spring Onions Jerusalem artichokes
Jobs
Thin out and transplant seedlings
Weeding and hoeing the beds
Support early peas and beans
Start hardening off soft vegetables grown indoors, putting out during the day
Shade young plants indoors from bright sunlight
Prick out seedlings and pot on fast growing vegetables
Earth up first and second early potato shoots
Plant Strawberries
Harvest early rhubarb
Mulch and tie up cane fruit and brambles