The Vegetable Garden in August is full of veg in their prime.
Pick off unhealthy leaves
The vegetable garden should be inspected regularly for pests and disease. Any badly infected or diseased leaves should be removed. Do not put them on the compost heap, remove them completely from the vegetable garden so that the pest or disease does not spread.
Stake vegetables
Beans, tomatoes, peppers, and chili’s can be staked to keep the fruit off the ground and prevent fruit rot. When the vegetable plants are standing up the air can circulate around them, preventing the muggy conditions that allow fungal diseases to develop.
Water vegetables when necessary
- Make sure vegetables in the garden have enough water
- Water vegetables at soil level, rather than wetting the leaves which can encourage leaf disease.
Sow vegetable seed
- Parsley
- Perpetual spinach
- beet
- radicchio
- cabbages
- lettuce
- Salad Leaves
- Chard
- Onion Hi Keeper
- Onion White Lisbon Winter Hardy Spring Onions
Buy Hessian sacks for potato storage
August is a busy tim in the vegetable garden
July is the month when all the hard work in the vegetable garden bares fruit. A lot of time will be spent harvesting fruit and vegetables.
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Sow directly into the ground:
Kale, spinach beet, Chinese greens, cabbages, winter lettuce & winter radish.
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These vegetables will supply fresh green leaves later on in the year if planted in July
Harvest:
Soft fruit, such as raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, currants, tayberries.
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French & runner beans, peas, potatoes, cabbages, spinach, beetroot, courgettes.
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Salad leaves, lettuces, radish & tomatoes
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Other jobs:
- Hoe to keep weeds down & conserve soil water
- Water plants regularly
- Ridge up potatoes
- cut down old raspberry canes when they have finished fruiting & tie in new canes
June is a busy month with lots of vegetable gardening jobs:
Sow:
- continue to sow directly into the soil french & runner beans, peas, beetroot, carrots,spinach beet, lettuces and salad leaves.
- plant out seedlings of leeks, cabbages, celariac, courgettes, pumpkins, squash, calabrese, purple sprouting broccoli and outdoor tomatoes
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Harvest:
- soft fruit
- broad beans, peas, early potatoes, garlic & shallots
- keep picking salad leaves, rocket and cut-&-come again lettuce
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Other jobs for June:
- dry shallots & garlic in sun
- mulch fruit bushes to retain moisture & smother weeds
- stake tomatoes, peas and dwarf beans
- tie raspberry canes to wires.
- net soft fruit against birds
- use enviromesh to keep insects & birds off brassicas & carrots
- collect rain water & use on veg in dry weather
Enjoy the vegetable gardening jobs in June!
Jobs for May in the Vegetable Garden:
Sow:
- into seedbeds – brussels sprouts, broccoli, winter cabbage & kale
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- directly into the ground – peas, lettuce, salad leaves, spring onions, beetroot, rocket, carrots, coriander & kohlrabi
Harden off:
celery plants to set outdoors at end of month
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Plant into ground at end of month:
beans, squash, courgettes, sweetcorn & pumpkins
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Crop:
- cabbages & spinach left from winter
- new-crop lettuce, salad leaves, rocket and spring onions
Other jobs:
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- put straw under strawberries
Sow seeds
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- Directly into the ground:
o broad beans
o kale
o kohl rabi
o parsnip
o leeks
Plant:
- Onion sets, garlic and shallots if not already done
- All hardy vegetables started indoors in March in the ground at the end of April
- Rest of potatoes
- Seedling vegetable plants purchased from garden center
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Harvest:
- broccoli
- autumn lettuce
- cabbage
- kale
- leeks
Other jobs:
- Polythene & fleece can be used to protect early outdoor sowings & tender plantings. Some vegetables, particularly beetroot, will bolt if caught by a cold snap.
- Control slugs – put out traps – slugs can wipe out young seedlings
- Clear away winter vegetables & prepare soil
- Cover carrots & summer brassicas with mesh – to keep carrot fly & other flying pests off
- Keeping weeds under control is a continuous job in the vegetable garden in April
There are plenty of jobs to be done in the vegetable garden in February!
Sow:
indoors from seed in trays or pots:
- early beetroot Bietola da Orto Paonazza d’Egitto is ideal for early sowings as matures quickly. Good for children to grow.
- broad beans
- spinach Spinach Perpetual is a prolific strain of spinach beet.
- summer cabbage Savoy Cabbage Estoril seeds can be sown under glass in February, and planted out when plants have 2-3 true leaves.
- calabrese for summer cropping
- globe artichoke
- lettuce sowing a few seed each week will give a continuous supply of lettuce
outside from seed under cloches in mild areas – early beetroot, lettuce, spring onions, salad leaves, spinach
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in the garden as soon as the ground is workable – onion sets, shallots and garlic
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Plant
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rhubarb & cover to force early stalks
Jerusalem artichoke tubers
Harvest:
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Early sprouting broccoli, cabbages, sprouts, kale, leeks, celery and parsnips
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Other Jobs:
- chit potatoes
- apply fertiliser to ground before sowing early crops, to overwintered vegetables, to soft fruit bushes
- cut down autumn fruiting raspberry canes to ground level and mulch
- dig the garden if the soil is dry
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The jobs to be done in the vegetable garden in February complete the circle of sowing and harvesting!
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The weather in January means there are fewer outside jobs to do in the vegetable garden, and productive time can be spent inside planning this season’s crops.
Seeds to Sow in January:
Crops to Harvest in January:
- cabbages
- cabbage
- sprouts
- kale
- leeks
- parsnips
Other January Jobs:
What to do in the garden in December depends on the weather &, more particularly, on how wet the ground is. It is not good to tread on wet soil, because it ruins the soil structure.
In December sow:
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In December crop:
- celery
- leeks
- parsnips
- sprouts
- cabbages
- Jerusalem artichokes
- spinach beet
In December protect from cold winds & frost (with fleece or cloches):
December is a good time to browse catalogues to see what vegetable seeds & plants are on offer, when it is too wet to get on the garden in December.
There are still a lot of jobs to do in the garden in November, particularly in this mild weather; there are seeds to sow, crops to harvest & there is the general tidying up of the vegetable garden.
Sow in November:
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Plant in November:
November Harvest:
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Other gardening jobs to be done in November:
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- digging, if it is not too wet, otherwise leave till the new year
- applying well rotted farm yard manure or compost to ground where next year’s crop will be peas, beans, onions, leeks, celery or spinach
- clear fallen leaves and put them on the compost heap
- collect, clean and store bean supports
- check stored crops & remove any which are starting to decay
- keep an eye out for pigeons & slugs which may be a problem in November
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Jobs for October include:
Sow directly into the ground:
- swiss chard
- perpetual spinach
- mixed winter salad leaves
Sow under cloches:
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Plant out:
- spring cabbage
- perpetual spinach
- chicory
- radicchio
Harvest:
- french beans
- runner beans
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- broad beans
- lettuce
- courgettes
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- marrows
- carrots
- sweetcorn
- cabbages
- peas
- main crop potatoes
- autumn raspberries
Other October Jobs:
- draw soil around leeks and celariac
- cut off this summer’s fruiting blackberry & raspberry canes at ground level & tie in new canes
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- order new fruit bushes for winter planting
