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Vegetables
Start saving egg boxes for chitting potato tubers
Pick
Brussels Sprouts regularly from the bottom up and remove yellowing leaves.
Earth-up
Winter Brassicas and Spring Cabbages to help steady them in the wind.
Harvesting Harvest
Carrots, Kale, Leeks, Parsnips, Swedes. Harvest
Winter Cabbage as and when needed.
Fruit
Divide and plant
Rhubarb. Clumps lifted can be used to start
forcing for early Spring ( Rhubarb )
Check tree stakes and ties
when Winter pruning.
Plant
fruit trees, bushes and canes. Prune
Blackcurrants, if not done in the Summer.
Prune
Gooseberry bushes and Red / White currants on a short trunk.
Prune
Grape vines before Christmas to avoid bleeding.
Prune established open-grown Apple and Pear trees (not cordons, espaliers or fans).
Formative pruning of young fruit trees and bushes (under three years old) can be done
now.
Hardwood cuttings can be taken this month - to propagate Blackcurrants, Red currants,
White currants, Gooseberries and Grape vines.
Herbs
Place cloches over tender
herbs.
Mulch
to cover herbs that have died down for the Winter.
Protect
young rosemary and sage against the cold weather. ( Straw & leafmould around
the base ). Around the Garden
Keep clearing up leaves
( leaf mould )
and debris. Protect
plants from severe cold and strong winds. Get
on with DIY jobs, i.e. in the shed, clean out gutters and down pipes, repair fencing, make a cold frame, clean
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