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Growing guides

 

Introduction

Crop rotation

Month by month

Planting and harvesting

 

Month by month

 

January  February  March  April  May  June July  August  September  October  November  December

 

Sowing outdoors/under cloche

Broad Beans        Carrots                       Cauliflower (all year)                  Chinese Cabbage

Lettuce under cover                                Onion seeds (Japanese)            Peas (late autumn or winter)

Spinach (winter)   Carrots (early)              Lettuce (winter)                        Mange Tout

Spring onions       Winter Salad

 

Planting out

Cabbage Plants    Garlic                         Onion Sets                               Rhubarb

Strawberries

 

Harvesting

Apricots               Apples                        Beetroot                                   Blackberries

Broad Beans        Beans ( Runner/french)  Green Broccoli                          Cabbage 

Cauliflower           Carrots                        Courgettes                                Cucumber

Garlic                  Jerusalem artichokes    Lettuce                                     Loganberries

Marrows              Nectarines                   Onions                                      Peaches

Pears                  Peas                           Plums                                       Pumpkin

Radish                Rocket                         Potatoes                                   Spinach

Spring Onions      Sprouts                       Squash                                     Sweetcorn

Swiss Chard        Tomatoes                    Turnips (Early)

 

Jobs

Clear out all empty beds, dig and weed for the winter.

Sow over-wintering green manures

Continue compost harvested plants

Cover late sowings of French beans with cloches.

Draw soil up around broccoli stems to protect from frost.

Stake tall Brussels sprout plants to avoid wind-rock.

Earth up Celery

Lift main-crop potatoes

Weed around the crowns of rhubarb and mulch

Prune Blackberries and hybrids

 

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