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17 September 2014
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7 - The kitchen diary
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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
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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