Vegetables to sow indoors
- Beetroot
- Cabbages (spring)
- Carrots
- French beans
- Kale
- Peas
- Radishes (winter)
- Sprouting broccoli
- Swiss chard
- Turnips
Salads to sow indoors
- Chicory
- Endive
- Lettuces
- Radishes
- Rocket
- Salad leaves
- Spring onions
What to grow outdoors this month
Sow outdoors
- Chicory
- Endive
- Lettuces
- Radishes
- Rocket
- Salad leaves
- Spring onions
What to harvest (& stow away) this month
Vegetables to harvest
- Aubergines
- Beetroot
- Broad beans
- Broccoli
- Carrots
- Chillies and peppers
- Courgettes
- Florence fennel
- French beans
- Garlic
- Globe artichokes
- Kohl rabi
- Leaf beet
- Marrows
- Onions
- Peas
- Potatoes
- Rhubarb
- Runner beans
- Shallots
- Spinach
- Turnips
Salads to harvest
- Celery
- Chicory
- Cucumber
- Lettuce
- Radishes
- Salad leaves
- Spring onions
- Tomatoes
Fruits to harvest
- Apricots
- Blackcurrants
- Blueberries
- Cherries
- Gooseberries
- Peaches
- Plums
- Raspberries
- Redcurrants
- Strawberries
- Whitecurrants
Jobs to do in the garden this month
- Pest & disease watch
- Water and weed
- Mulch
- Pinch out tomato shoots and tops of climbing beans
- Feed tomatoes and peppers
- Net peas and brassicas (to prevent the birds eating all the crops)
- Earth up potatoes
- Summer prune gooseberries and currants
- Remove raspberry runners you don’t want
- Feed asparagus
- Tie in blackberries
- Prune fruit trees
- Take perennial herb cuttings for propagating
- Tidy up strawberries
- Dry out onions and garlic by laying them out
- Build up earth around potatoes, brassicas and celery
Join us
Volunteer days are where this starts. We want people from in and around MK to join us and get involved in any aspect of the project and the garden that interests them.
We will always welcome new volunteers, whether you’re an individual or coming with company or even planning a corporate volunteer day.
Please contact us if you’re interested in joining – no matter what your skills or knowledge.
To join our group, follow us on Twitter or Facebook or simply contact us here.
We look forward to seeing you in the garden!
