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Month by Month Jobs For The Garden.

Garden Jobs for March

Garden Jobs for March

Garden Jobs for March

  • Clean and Organise Greenhouse
  • Dig Over Vegetable Beds - Top Up With Manure & Compost
  • Pick Out Weeds
  • Feed & Support Fruit Trees
  • Last Chance To Plant Fruit Trees
  • Sow Peas, Lettuce, Mustard, Cress, Cucumbers, Cauliflowers, Sprouts, Parsnips, Onions, Spinach, Sweetcorn, Brussels Sprouts, Tomatoes, Broccoli, Spring Onions, Radish
  • Plant Out Early Potatoes, Garlic
  • Fertilise strawberry beds with blood fish & bone
  • Clear away old stumps of Brussels, cabbage etc and prepare land for new crop.
  • Harvest celeriac sown in April last year.
  • Harvest spinach sown in October
  • Harvest Purple Sprouting Broccoli sown 

Garden Jobs For April

Garden Jobs for March

Garden Jobs for March

  • Support Peas
  • Start a new compost heap
  • Plant out onions
  • Sow long rooted carrots
  • Sow spinach and more peas
  • Sow radish and lettuce outdoors
  • Fertilise potatoes and plant more
  • Sow Salsify, Chicory & Runner Beans.
  • Plant out cabbage and sprouts if all chance of frost has gone.
  • Sow turnips
  • Transfer sweetcorn to bigger pots
  • Prepare tomatoes for outdoors
  • Make up celery trenches. Sow celery.
  • Plant out broad beans, cauliflowers (for succession) and make successional sowings of turnip.
  • Hoe between crops.
  • Sow calabresse (broccoli) inside
  • Sow pickling onions and soft neck garlic outside.
  • Fertilise onions and shallots between the rows. 
  • Plant out leeks
  • Cut asparagus
  • Sow maincrop beetroot.
  • Earth-up potatoes
  • Sow more cucumbers
  • Sow courgettes inside
  • Sow squash inside
  • Sow Nasturtiums



Garden Jobs For May

Garden Jobs for March

Garden Jobs For June

  • Thin seedlings
  • Earth Up Potatoes
  • Mulch Peas and Beans
  • Sow sprouting broccoli inside
  • Sow winter cabbage inside
  • Sow Kale inside
  • Plant out Brussels Sprouts
  • Sow radishes outside
  • Sow Beetroot outside
  • Sow carrots outside
  • Sow Lettuce outside
  • Sow Runner Beans outside
  • Sow Marrows outside
  • Sow Sweetcorn outside
  • Place straw around your strawberries
  • Plant out Celery
  • Plant out cucumbers
  • Sow Swedes and Turnips outside
  • Plant out cauliflowers
  • Plant out spinach
  • Plant out leeks
  • Plant out chard
  • Plant out spring onions
  • Plant out cabbage
  • Plant out broccoli
  • Plant out lettuce started inside.
  • Fertilise and hoe amongst crops.
  • Plant mid season leeks
  • Thin out grapes
  • Tie raspberry growths to wire supports
  • Sow pumpkins
  • Sow radishes outside
  • Sow Courgette
  • Sow Basil inside
  • Sow French beans
  • Sow Sunflowers
  • Sow Sweetpeas
  • Sow French Marigolds
  • Plant Gladioli bulbs
  • Se poppies outside
  • Put straw around strawberries
  • Transfer parsley sown in February, to a bigger pot.
  • Harvest radishes sown in March.


Garden Jobs For June

Garden Jobs For August

Garden Jobs For June

Garden Jobs For July

Garden Jobs For August

Garden Jobs For August

Garden Jobs For August

Garden Jobs For August

Garden Jobs For August

Garden Jobs For September

Garden Jobs For September

Garden Jobs For September

Garden Jobs For October

Garden Jobs For September

Garden Jobs For September

Garden Jobs For November

Garden Jobs For September

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Garden Jobs For December

Garden Jobs For December

Garden Jobs For November

Garden Jobs For January

Garden Jobs For December

Garden Jobs For February

Garden Jobs For February

Garden Jobs For December

Garden Jobs For February

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