JANUARY |
Sow mammoth onions.
Sow mammoth leeks from the 3rd week.
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FEBRUARY |
Sow smaller varieties of onions. Sprout 1st Early potatoes.
Sow early tomatoes.
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MARCH |
Sow Jolant leeks, early lettuce, chilli and sweet peppers, aubergine
and brassica. Outdoor tomatoes varieties can be sown
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APRIL |
Plant onions outdoors from end April. Plant out brassica.
Plant potatoes outdoors. Sow 1st beetroot and carrots outdoors.
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MAY |
Plant exhibition leeks outdoors. All vegetable plants can now
be planted outside once plants become ready.
Sow leeks and purple sprouting broccoli for over wintering.
From end month plant tomatoes outdoors
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JUNE |
Sow salad crops in succession.
Courgettes, marrows, squash and pumpkin planted.
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JULY |
Make sure exhibition vegetables are kept watered.
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AUGUST |
Lettuce sown outdoors. Sow 1st winter lettuce.
Spring cabbage sown. Plant winter vegetables.
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SEPTEMBER |
Harvest tender crops prior to frost. Sow winter salad vegetables. Plant overwintering onion sets.
Move late planted potatoes under protection.
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OCTOBER |
Garlic planted. Prepare exhibition onion and leeks ground for
following season. Sow winter salad greens in greenhouse.
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NOVEMBER |
Tidy vegetable plot of any debris. Clean greenhouse.
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DECEMBER |
Boxing Day sow mammoth onions.
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