Vegetable Beds
- Chit seed potatoes
- Plant shallots (week 4)
- Sow Parsnip (week 4)
- Spring clean Brassica beds
- Sow Spring onions?
- Clean Asparagus beds ready for spring. Mulch with well rotted manure or compost - before growth starts or the new tips will be damaged.
- Feed spring cabbage with quick-acting nitrogen
- Prepare beds for sowing next month
- Divide Sage and Thyme and cut back excess growth
- Check stored potatoes - rub off any sprouts
- Check stored onions - chuck any "sick" ones!
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Fruit
- Lift some mature rhubarb crowns, split and replant; mulch of compost over rhubarb crowns
- Cover strawberry plants planted last year with cloches to get them growing a bit earlier
- mulch of compost around gooseberry, blackcurrant and redcurrant bushes, and raspberry canes
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What's in Season?
- Broccoli - Sprouting
- Brussels Sprouts
- Cabbage - Savoy
- Cabbage - Winter
- Kale
- Leek
- Parsnip
- Use up the last of any stored beetroot and carrots, before they start to regrow
- Harvest the last of the salsify and scorzonera, also before they regrow.
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