SPRING

March: Sow parsnips, carrots, lettuces, peas and plant flowers like lilies, galdoili and stocks.
April: Sow early potatoes, tomatoes, mangetout peas, runner beans, courgettes, and bedding plants. Plant Fruit trees, and bushes and hardy annunals.
May: Sow cabbages, brocoli, cauliflower, pumpkin, squash and beetroot. This is a good time to plant herbs and window boxes and hanging baskets.

SUMMER

June: Plant leeks, courgettes and celery.
July: Plant bulbs for autumn flowering plants, e.g. crocus. Plant salad leaves, they can be grown throughout the summer.
August: Sow seeds for plants flowering in spring e.g. snowdrops and to flower next summer including cornflowers and poppies.

AUTUMN

September: Plant spring cabbages and any new trees and shrubs before winter sets in. Plant daffodils, tulips, wallflower and lily bulbs to flower in the spring.
October: Plant pansies to flower in winder and summer biennials.
November: Sow broad bean seeds.

WINTER:

December: Plant shallots
January/February: If you have a greenhouse now is the time to sow seeds for the coming year.


Don't forget to keep an eye out for the old garden enemy, slugs and snails!