JAN
Continue digging and manuring. Lift rhubarb roots for forcing. Sprout seed potatoes. Sow
long-pod broad beams and round-seeded peas outdoors in mild area (or in boxes in cool
greenhouses).
FEB
In open ground sow white or green Windsor broad beans and parsnips, and plant shallots.
Sow under cloches: round seeded peas, Brussels sprouts, stump rooted carrots, lettuce and beetroot.
MAR
Sow in open: broad beams, summer cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, Savoy cabbage,
parsnips, spinach.
Sow under cloches: beetroots, carrots, cauliflower, leeks, lettuce, onions, peas.
Plant early potatoes.
APR
Sow in open: beetroot, brassicas, carrots, leeks, lettuce, onion, parsnips, peas, summer
spinach, turnips, radish, plant onion sets, chives, main crop potatoes.
Sow runner beans under cloches.
MAY
Make more sowings of beetroot, carrots, lettuce, peas, radishes, summer spinach, turnips.
Sow outdoors: French and runner beans, sprouting and late heading broccoli, winter
cabbage, kale, Savoy cabbage.
JUNE
Sow more French and runner beans, beetroot, carrots, kale, lettuce, radishes and other salads, marrows, round seeded peas, also sow swedes.
Plant autumn and winter greens, leeks, tomatoes.
Plant out cucumbers, marrows, pumpkins, self blanching celery and squashes
JULY
Sow: French beams, spring cabbage, winter lettuce, swedes, turnips and continue to sow salad crops.
Complete planting Brussels sprouts, leeks and winter cabbages
Feed crops with liquid manure.
Lift shallots when golden brown.
Watch out for pests and diseases, especially potato blight and flea beetle.
AUG
Sow: cauliflower and cabbage for next spring, winter lettuce, early carrots, winter spinach and spinach beet. Thin late sowings as necessary. Keep picking runner beans before they get too large. Bend over onion leaves if still green.
SEPT
Sow: Spring cauliflower, winter lettuce, winter spinach and main crop onions.
Place cloches over July sown French beans, earth up leaks, store shallots, onions, potatoes
and other root vegetables.
Plant spring brassicas .
OCT
Thin winter spinach and spinach beet. Continue to earth up leeks.
Cloche autumn-sown lettuce.
Store more root vegetables if necessary.
Start digging up any manuring vacant ground.
NOV
Root vegetables can be lifted and stored as required.
Sow broad beans for early crops next year, using a long pod variety. This sowing can be a
gamble.
Continue with the digging.
Remove yeIIow leaves from brassicas.
DEC
Order seeds and seed potatoes if your catalogues have arrived,
Lift rhubarb crown for forcing in heat, or cover with large pot.
Continue digging and manuring ground if not too wet or frozen.