Seasonal Planting List
Scan monthly summaries below to plan your year at the allotment. Click any month title for a full guide. Use these tips to stay ahead with sowing and maintenance for a flourishing, healthy plot.
What to Plant: Broad beans (under cover), garlic, and shallots if soil isn't frozen.
Maintenance: Plan your crop rotation, clean tools, and check stored produce for decay.
What to Plant: Onion sets, early peas, and chillies or peppers on a warm windowsill.
Maintenance: Chitting seed potatoes, pruning fruit trees, and clearing perennial weeds.
What to Plant: Early potatoes, carrots, beetroot, and summer cabbage seeds.
Maintenance: Warming soil with cloches and mulching beds with well-rotted compost.
What to Plant: Maincrop potatoes, leeks, spinach, and dwarf French beans.
Maintenance: Weeding regularly as temperatures rise and protecting new shoots from slugs.
What to Plant: Runner beans, tomatoes, squash, and sweetcorn outdoors.
Maintenance: Hardening off tender plants and providing support for climbing beans.
What to Plant: Summer salads, kale, and purple sprouting broccoli for winter.
Maintenance: Watering during dry spells and thinning out direct-sown seedlings.
What to Plant: Fast-growing salads, spring cabbage seeds, and turnips.
Maintenance: Harvesting early crops and mulching to retain soil moisture.
What to Plant: Japanese onions, winter lettuce, and chicory.
Maintenance: Pruning summer-fruiting raspberries and pegging down strawberry runners.
What to Plant: Green manures to protect soil over winter and broad beans.
Maintenance: Clearing finished crops and starting the autumn cleanup of the plot.
What to Plant: Rhubarb crowns, autumn-fruiting raspberries, and garlic.
Maintenance: Harvesting pumpkins and squash before the first frost hits.
What to Plant: Bare-root fruit bushes and trees while they are dormant.
Maintenance: Checking tree ties and stakes are secure against winter winds.
What to Plant: Not much planting this month; focus on planning next year's plot.
Maintenance: Harvesting winter vegetables and adding organic matter to beds.