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Growing guides
Month by month
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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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