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Vegetables
Sow direct in ground. Broad beans,
beetroot, calabrese, early & main crop
carrot, summer cauliflower,
lettuce,
onion from seed, spring onion, parsnip,
pea, mangetout pea, radish,
spinach / leaf beet, swede,
turnip. Sow
in Pots
Dwarf
French bean, runner bean, sprouting
broccoli, brussels sprouts, summer
cabbage,
calabrese, summer cauliflower, autumn
cauliflower, self blanching celery,
courgette, kale, leek, marrow,
pumpkin,
sweet corn, outdoor tomato,
chillies. Leeks
& Brassicas can be sown in a seed bed.
Plant
outdoors
Broad bean, Dwarf French bean, runner
bean, summer cabbage, calabrese,
summer cauliflower, self blanching celery, onion from
seed, onion from sets, early
potatoes,
main crop potatoes, shallot.
Fruit
Control
weeds around cane fruit and give them a good mulch of well rotted farmyard
manure.
Protect
fruit against birds, but use a netting with a gauge of about 2cm to allow bees
access for pollination. Give frost protection when necessary.
Pick
off the flowers of newly planted early and late varieties of strawberry's to
hold them back for a massive crop next year.
Prune
stone fruits if weather allows. Herbs
Sow
basil indoors for planting out after the frosts. Sow
Florence fennel & parsley. Divide
chives and creeping thymes.
Around the Garden
Watch for vine weevil, slugs &
snails, flea beetles and sawfly caterpillars on gooseberry bushes.
Put up carrot fly netting or
plastic sheeting about 2ft high.
Rake up debris where pests are
inclined to hide.
Erect supports for climbing beans
and peas.
Hoe regulary.
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