Sowing & Planting

• Sow Tomatoes, sweet peppers and chilli.  Sow 2 to a 3" pot and prick out to 1 per pot after germination.
• Sow herbs in seed trays.
• Sow lettuce in seed trays or modules.
• Plant onion and shallot sets.  Be guided by the weather.  Either plant direct or plant into 2.5" pots  for transplanting in warmer weather.
• Transplant leeks into 9" deep pots, 15 per pot.  Keep in the greenhouse or cold frame until April.
• Sow brassicas either in seed trays or in 3" pots under glass.

Harvest

• Rhubarb
  
• Kale 
• Last year's leeks and sprouts

Preparation

• Wash all last year's plant pots 
• Dig trenches for seed potatoes and line with manure
• Prepare seedbeds by hoeing and covering with fleece to warm up the ground.
• Flatten brassica beds so that they are very firm.  Make sure to use lots of lime.
• Prepare carrot boxes and been and pea supports.
• Apply fertilisers to boost the nutritional content of your soil before sowing and planting begins