Vegetable Beds
- Finish sowing potatoes; continue earthing up potatoes
- Sow French and Runner Bean - through to July
- Support for main-crop peas
- Thin Carrots (if necessary), Parsnips, Beetroot, leaf Beet, Spinach. Do not allow to dry out
- Thin Brassica seedlings; they may be tall enough to transplant this month
- Sow Kale, Broccoli, Savoy and Winter Cabbage - as April brassicas in protected seed bed
- Sow Salsify and Scorzonera
- Thin swedes and turnips
- Continuous sowings (peas, lettuce, spring onions, radishes, beetroot, carrots, leeks, chard, spinach, turnip etc
- Sow Cucumbers and Squashes (week 4, or early June) in prepared beds - or earlier under cloches
- Sow chervil, dill, coriander,
- Plant out Basil - and any other herbs sown indoors
- Harden off and plant out sweetcorn sown indoors; sow sweetcorn direct in bed (week 4)
- Clean out carrots showing signs of carrot fly
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Fruit
- Feed Rhubarb through summer - compost round crowns after harvesting
- Protect strawberries with mulch of straw, or black plastic with slits
- Weed canes and bushes
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What's in Season?
- Asparagus
- last of Broccoli - Sprouting
- last of Cabbage - Spring Greens
- Rhubarb!
- Radish
- Rocket
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