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Spring

• Fork over bare soil in vegetable beds
• Plant shallots and onion sets, sow early vegetables and salads, covering with cloches if cold
• Feed soft and tree fruit
• Plant sprouted potato tubers
• Sow most maincrop vegetables, other than frost tender ones
• Plant tomatoes in an unheated greenhouse
• After the last frost sow frost-tender vegetables

Highlights

Plant lists

Plant lists

Find plant lists on:

• Soft fruit
• Tree fruit
• Easy vegetables
• Herbs
• Greenhouse planting

Video

Video

Watch video clips on:

• Basic principles of growing vegetables
• Growing seasonal vegetables
• Making a vegetable plot
• Making a compost heap

Interactive

Interactive
Learn how to build a compost heap with our fun game, Hurl-a-heap .

Useful links

• Create a virtual garden
• Techniques in the garden
• Plant profiles
• Design projects
• Plant database

Forking soil
Summer

• Paint liquid shading on to the outside of the greenhouse
• Clear early vegetables and salads and replant beds as soon as possible
• Feed and water tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers and melon plants regularly
• Plant new strawberry plants
• Protect soft fruit from birds
• Plant winter brassicas
• Earth up potatoes

Digging up potatoes
Autumn

• Spring clean the greenhouse before the first frosts
• Dig and manure empty beds
• Sow winter salads under glass
• Plant soft and tree fruit
• Dig up potatoes and store in paper sacks in a frost-free shed
• Pick and store apples
• Start to winter prune fruit trees

Greenhouse planting
Winter

• Finish winter pruning fruit trees
• Prune autumn-fruiting raspberries
• Finish digging and manuring beds
• Order seed for next year
• Harvest and store winter cropping vegetables as appropriate

Uprooting winter vegetables - leek musselburgh

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7. The productive garden

Introduction
Setting up your plot
Growing vegetables
Growing fruit
The kitchen diary
Greenhouse growing
The herb garden
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