Sowing & Planting

• Sow peas direct, or if you want to stop the mice from eating them, sow into small pots until they have rooted before planting out.
• Plant early potatoes into trenches or holes in the first half of the month and lates in the second half of the month.
• Transplant onions and shallots direct into the ground.
• Pot up brassicas into 3" pots.
• Pot up tomatoes, sweet peppers and chilli when the first true leaves appear.
• Sow French Beans, spinach, beetroot, Swiss chard, radish, turnip outdoors, direct into the ground.
• Sow carrots into finally sieved soil to avoid stones.
• Sow sweetcorn into long root training modules.
• Sow courgettes & squashes direct on in pots.

Harvest

• Asparagus,  cut half an inch below the ground.
• Spring cauliflowers and sprouting broccoli.
• Lettuce

Preparation & Planning

• Prepare seedbeds by hoeing and marking with string.
• Protect young seedlings and plant with cloches.
• Thin out seeds when they get large enough to handle.
• Prune cherries and plums once leaf buds have opened.