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Your plot month by month

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SPRING

This site section is purely advisory: conditions can vary widely from plot to plot, gardeners are a diverse and sometimes contentious species, and not everyone likes kale...

March

(weather and soil conditions permitting)

Weed & feed over-wintered crops

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Complete fruit planting and pruning (except for stone fruits)

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Sow in open:

Broad beans, cabbages, calabrese, kale, lettuce, bunching & main crop onions, parsnips, peas, radishes, spinach beet, turnips, herbs (be mindful of birds, slugs and snails, and frost!)

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Sow under cover:

Dwarf beans, beetroot, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflowers, celery, celeriac, leeks

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Sow in heat: aubergines, peppers, tomatoes

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Plant: Jerusalem artichokes, garlic, onion sets, first early potatoes, rhubarb plants (soil temperatures permitting)

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Finish adding manure to beds for later use

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April
(but be careful of frosts)

Sow in open:

Globe artichokes, beetroot, broad beans, sprouting broccoli, Brussels sprouts, autumn and winter cabbage, calabrese, carrots, kale, leeks, lettuce, Japanese bunching and pickling onions, parsley, parsnips, peas, radishes, rocket, spinach beet, summer spinach, turnips

Sow under cover:

Hybrid broccoli, dwarf beans, late summer/autumn cauliflowers, celeriac, celery, runner beans, courgettes, cucumbers, kale, marrows, sweet corn, tomatoes

Sow in heat:

Aubergines, courgettes, cucumbers, peppers, pumpkins, winter squash, tomatoes

Plant:

Asparagus crowns, brassica seedlings, onion sets, early and main-crop potatoes

Jobs:

Regular weeding, earthing up early potatoes if necessary, support early peas, continue preparing beds for sowing / planting, harden off seedlings started under cover / in heat, check flowering and setting of stone fruit blossom, protect fruit trees and bushes in flower from frost, plant late season strawberries

May 
 

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