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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                 Cauliflower (all year)       Lettuce (Winter)        Onion seeds (Japanese)

Peas (winter or early)     Spinach (winter)

 

Planting out

Cabbage (Spring)           Garlic                           Grape Vines              Onion Sets

Rhubarb                        Strawberries

 

Harvesting

Red Cabbages               Savoy Cabbages           Carrots                       Jerusalem artichokes

Lettuce                         Peas                             Spinach                     Turnips

 

Jobs

Dig and weed all empty beds for the winter adding compost and manure as necessary.

Sow over-wintering green manures

Clean out greenhouse and cold frames

Check sheds, greenhouses etc and make sure they are water-tight and secured against the wind

Cut down Globe artichokes and protect the crowns with straw.
Lift and split mature clumps of rhubarb.

Plant out fruit trees

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