Can anyone point me towards a good book or website that has a comprehensive planting calendar?
I spent the summer clearing and digging, and am a little disappointed with the progress I made. I am a one man band when it comes to my allotment, and with holidays, busy weekends and late nights at work, I didn't make the most of the time since May when I got the plot.
Having said that, I am now keen to be ready for a full season. I have an idea what I will want to plant, and where I want to plant it, but really need to know when! I'm pretty sure theres stuff I should be planting now!
I will need to buy seeds etc in bits and bobs - as and when i can afford, so will need to know what to buy first.
I hope you know what i mean by a planting calendar - basically a list of what I should be doing each month!
All this knowledge will come with time, but right now i need a bit of help!
Thanks
JJ
I can point you to my website which I think might help.
How can I say anything else? ::) http://tinyurl.com/yn57zu
There's not much you can do now, really, except plant your garlic and maybe some overwintering broad beans if you like that?? You can also plant soft fruit and strawberries now, they spend winter in the ground resting.
This is quite a good one-page calender:
http://www.btinternet.com/~bury_rd/GardenDiary.htm (http://www.btinternet.com/~bury_rd/GardenDiary.htm)
hope that helps too.
antipodes (my blog shows what I planted when but as you can see I wasn't very successful, teegee is much more of a star in the garden!!) ;)
Thanks both for the links, I will have a peruse...
Interesting what you say about Strawberries Antipodes - I have some in my kitchen on the windowsill that a friend at work gave me, and I had assumed it would be best to get them in the ground in the spring! Shows what I know doesnt it?!!!
Glad I asked now.
Well you can do both actually :)
This year was my first year so the strawbs went in in March. They gave lots of babies (I forgot to put them on the Pill chortle) actually they were quicker than me at runners, helped by a lack of weeding on my part. So the babies have now been dug up and planted into my new strawberry plot!! Last week...
They will be dormant over winter then come back in spring. Strawberries are hardy, mulch with a little straw if there is a big cold snap but they don't mind the winter. After all they are a woodland plant...
I am just about to de-net mine, and clean them up before winter, weed them and leave them to rest a bit. I had a nice crop this year, never nibbled so many strawberries in my life.
cant wait! I do love a strawberry :)
suffolk herbs which is part of king's Seeds I believe, offer a Vegetable Growing Guide that might be of use - it comes in the form of a poster like the Companion Planting Charts
http://www.suffolkherbs.com
I must say a big thanks to Tee Gee as i used his site when i first got my allotment and it helped loads
Ta Ver y much!