Harvest:Brussel sprouts, kale and cabbage as spring greens. Lift vegetables overwintering in the garden such as jerusalem artichokes, carrots, parsnips, leeks.
Sow - Indoors: Lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, celery to plant out later.
Sow - Outdoors: Broad beans, round seeded peas, radish and round seeded spinach either when conditions allow or under cloches.
Plant: Jerusalem artichoke and shallots, when soil conditions allow.
Cultivate: Seed potatoes by putting in shallow trays in a frost free place to develop short shoots.
Apply general fertiliser to the plot and cultivate it into the surface when preparing a fine crumbly surface in readiness for seed sowing.
Protect: Young seedlings and pea and bean seed from mice attack
Harvest: New green shoots from brussel sprouts as vegetables, turnip tops and spring cabbage as greens. Lift any remaining leeks and heel them in for use in the next few weeks. It is also advisable to lift any remaining root vegetables now. Store them in the recommended way if necessary.
Sow - Indoors: Celery (self blanching and trench varieties) and brussel sprouts for an early crop.
Sow - Outdoors: Broad beans, Brussel sprouts, carrot, lettuce, leeks, onion, parsley, parsnips, peas, radish, spinich, turnips.
Plant: Onion sets, broad beans and peas from earlier sowing.
Cultivate: Apply nitrogen fertiliser top dressing to spring cabbage and overwintered lettuce crops. Pull earth up over asparagus crowns so they are well covered, to provide blanched stems, Start routine hoeing to control the weeds as the soil surface dries.
Protect: as many of the outdoor sown crops as possible with cloches to give early crops better germination. Poly tunnels and fleece also prevent sparrows from eating lettuce and other emerging seedlings.
Harvest: Start cutting asparagus sprouting broccoli, kale, spring cabbages and pulling radish. Clear brussel sprouts and winter cabbage. Leave woody stems in the air to dry out before burning them.
Sow - Indoors:(Towards the end of the period) aubergines, peppers, tomatoes, runner beans and sweet corn.
Sow - Outdoors: Beetroot, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, onions (for pickling), salad onions, turnips.
Plant: early potatoes, globe artichoke sets and cauliflower from the earlier indoor sowing.
Cultivate: Soil and dig trench for celery, Start to erect sticks or net for early peas. Continue to hoe regularly.
Harvest: Asparagus, spinach, spring cabbage sprouting broccoli, lettuce, radish, salad onions.
Sow - Indoors: (Early in the period&get; aubergines, cucumbers, marrows, melons, peppers and tomatoes.
Sow - Outdoors: Beans - french and runner, winter greens - kale, savoys and sprouting broccoli and cabbage, carrots, lettuce, beetroot, suede and sweet corn. At the end of the period sow ridge cucumbers and marrows.
Plant:Indoor raised beans and sweet corn under cloches and celery outside. Plant brussel sprouts and other winter greens as soon as they are large enough
Cultivate:Pull soil up around potatoes, covering the emerging young shoots if frost is imminent. Maintain regular hoeing and apply much of well rotted compost to retain moisture in the soil.
Protect:Tender crops with cloches or fleece at night if frost is forecast. Keeps a watch for greenfly and use a protective spray if that's your thing.
Harvest:Finish cutting asparagus and start picking broad beans, cauliflower and peas. Continue gathering cabbage, lettuce spring onions, radish and spinach.
Sow - Outdoors: Swedes, beetroot, carrots, lettuce, peas, turnips, french and runner beans.
Plant:All tender vegetables such as aubergines, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes and marrows outside. A few late potatoes can also be planted. Continue to plant leeks and winter green vegetables.
Cultivate:Support crops like runner beans and tomatoes by erecting stakes and strings. Continue thining out seedling to the required spacing and hoeing to eliminate weeds.
Protect: Broad beans from black fly attack by pinching out the growing tips of the plants infested with this pest. Place nets over peas if birds are eating the peas in the pods.
Harvest: Most crops - e.g. dwarf beans cabbage, cauliflower, globe artichokes, peas, carrots, turnips, lettuce and early potatoes and shallots.
Sow - Outdoors:Spring cabbage at the end of the period, also carrots , lettuce, radish and turnips
Plant:complete winter green transplanting
Cultivate:Apply liquid fertiliser to beans, celery and tomatoes every ten to fourteen days for the biggest crops. Water occasionally, (or well in hot dry weather)
Protect: Potatoes in warm damp weather against blight by spraying with copper fungicide. Give some shade to emerging seedlings and crops like melons in very hot sunshine, by using cloches that have been painted white.
Harvest: Most crops - including a start on sweet corn, tomatoes, marrows and ridge cucumbers. Lift shallots and dry out in the sun before storing for winter use.
Sow - Outdoors: Winter spinach, spring cabbage (early in the period), onions for overwintering, spring salad onions.
Cultivate: Continue hoeing to control weeds, watering and liquid feeding where necessary.Keep side shooting cucumbers and training cucumbers where they are cordon grown.
Protect: Ripening onions and shallots from heavy rainfall to prevent re-growth and split bulbs. Harvest crops as soon as they are ready to prevent rapid ageing in hot conditions.
Harvest: Beans - french and runners, beetroot cabbage, carrots, cauliflowers, cucumber, lettuce, marrow and turnips. It is a good time to lift potatoes (leave them to dry for an hour or two before storing for winter use). Make sure you have stored crops such as onions before the end of this period.
Sow : Lettuce, onions to overwinter and turnips for turnip tops
Plant: Spring cabbage from the late summer sowing.
Cultivate: Soil as potatoes are lifted to prepare the cabbage and other crops. This is a good time to start another compost heap as the autumn clean-up is under way.
Protect: A good time to erect polythene-covered structures, both cloches and greenhouses. They will then survive two winters and at least one summer.
Harvest: The first brussels sprouts and the last of all crops to be destroyed by frost. Lift and store all the root crops as they mature. Complete lifting potatoes and put in store for use through the winter months.
Sow - outdoors: Lettuce and round seeded peas and broad beans (towards the end of this period) to overwinter, ideally under cloches.
Plant: Spring cabbage before get very wet and cold.
Cultivate: Start autumn digging and cut down the old stems on asparagus, this is a good time to dig in well decayed garden compost.
Protect: Protect endive to give blanched hearts and start to force chicory in pots indoors.
Harvest: Brussels sprouts, winter spinach beet, cabbage and the last of the cauliflowers. Start lifting trench grown celery (it will have more flavour after the frost). Complete lifting root vegetables to store over winter.
Sow - Round seeded peas and broad beans ideally under cloches.
Cultivate: Complete the big clear up by storing canes and stakes, compost old leaves and plant remains and burn old stems of crops like runner beans and peas. Dig any vacant soil.
Harvest: Check stored vegetables occasionally and remove any that show signs of rotting. Continue to gather brussels sprouts, spinach beet and winter cabbage.
Sow indoors: Onions at the end of the period (but only if you want really big onions next year).
Cultivate: Continue digging if not completed.
Protect: Tender plants like globe artichokes by putting some old pea stems around the base and pulling soil up around them. Protect tender stored vegetables like potatoes from the frost.
Harvest: Winter rooted green vegetables and then use other vegetables from store. Continue to force chicory for winter salads.
Sow - indoors: Mustard and cress for winter salads.
Plan: for coming year. Select the varieties you wish to grow and secure supplies.
Cultivate: This is a good time to apply lime to dug soil which tends to be acid. Cut sticks for peas and bean support.