Gardening Week-By-Week
Gardening plans for our West Midlands garden, adjusted for last frost dates. Today is May 3
Jan
Week One
0
Day
- Prune spent autumn fruiting raspberry canes
- Begin saving cardboard inner tubes
- Begin saving egg cartons
Week Two
0
Day
- Sow shallot sets into 8cm pots in porch
- Garden maintenance
Week Three
0
Day
- Prune apple & pear trees
Week Four
0
Day
- Prune hydrangeas
Feb
Week One
0
Day
- Sow onion seeds indoors
- Sow leeks indoors
- Sprout & sow sweet peas indoors
- Sow early summer cauliflower
- Prune blueberries, blackcurrants & pinkcurrants
- Cut back pampas grass
- Tidy strawberry beds
- Pot up berries if needed (blueberries require ericaceous compost)
Week Two
0
Day
- Tidy garden, get rid of last leaves
- Remove grass from tree bases
- Feed & mulch trees with poultry manure, fresh compost and feed
- Section ginger (optional) and soak in water before potting indoors
- Sprout chickpeas for sowing
Week Three
0
Day
- Chit potatoes
- Plant sprouted chickpeas
- Start onion sets in small pots indoors
- Sow Lettuce. Leave in porch to germinate (no heat mat)
Week Four
0
Day
- Sow sweet peppers & chillies
- Sow peas
- Sprout and sow remaining chickpeas
Mar
Week One
0
Day
- Sow early carrots direct
- Sow spinach indoors for harvesting baby leaves
- Sow flowers indoors: phlox
- Sow asparagus seeds indoors
- Mulch hydrangeas
Week Two
0
Day
- Sow tomatoes
- Sow peas
- Sow early Brussels sprouts
- Thin out leeks
- Plant spring garlic
- Move sprouted peas outdoors
Week Three
0
Day
- Sow spinach direct
- Start sowing spring onions every two weeks
- Sow flowers under cover/indoors: globethistle, calendula, nasturtium, China aster, Linaria maroccana, musk mallow
- Sow flowers direct: poppy, sisyrinchium, snapdragon
- Fertilise asparagus
Week Four
0
Day
- Plant sprouted potatoes (all of them, earlies and maincrop)
- Sow beetroot under cloches
- Sow onions direct
- Thin Brussels sprouts
- Start sowing lettuce directly every two weeks
- Pot up peppers
- Scarify, aerate and seed lawn
Apr
Week One
0
Day
- Mulch blackcurrants, pink currants & blueberries
- Protect nectarine blossom from frost
- Plant asparagus crowns
- Sow spinach indoors
- Plant out shallot sets started indoors
- Sow mid/late variety Brussels sprouts
- Plant onion sets
- Sow turnips direct
- Sow carrots direct
- Sow radishes under cloches
- Buy strawberries
- Sow flowers indoors: Strawflowers, Linum, foxgloves, Zinnias
- Sow flowers direct: Strawflowers
Week Two
0
Day
- Pot up tomatoes
- Sow beetroot in pots indoors
- Sow early sprouting broccoli under cover
- Sow squash/pumpkins indoors
- Sow more carrots
Week Three
0
Day
- Sow broccoli (large head broccoli)
- Sow sweetcorn indoors/greenhouse
- Thin lettuce
- Harden off onion seedlings
- Sow radishes direct
Week Four
0
Day
- Last predicted frost
- Sow late sprouting broccoli under cover
- Sow French beans under cloches/indoors
- Sow Parsnip direct
- Plant out/thin spinach
- Plant out flowers: phlox
- Thin turnips
May
Week One
0
Day
- Sow late variety broccoli
- Harden off tomatoes
- Sow main crop carrots
- Plant out Thunbergia over wooden arch
Week Two
0
Day
- Plant out beetroot seedlings
- Sow French Beans direct/harden off indoor sown ones
- Plant out onion seedlings
- Give potatoes nitrogen feed every two weeks
- Harden off squash/pumpkins
- Mulch strawberries
Week Three
0
Day
- Thin beetroot seedlings
- Transplant Brussels sprouts
- Sow Autumn cauliflowers in pots
- Sow swede direct
- Plant out sweetcorn
Week Four
0
Day
- Plant out tomatoes
- Thin parsnips
- Begin harvesting radishes
- Plant out squash/pumpkins
Jun
Week One
0
Day
- Harden off peppers
Week Two
0
Day
- Feed potatoes potash fortnightly
- Thin swede seedlings
- Plant out sweet pepper (growhouse?)
Week Three
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Four
0
Day
- Maintenance
Jul
Week One
0
Day
- Plant out broccoli
- Stop watering shallots
Week Two
0
Day
- Plant Autumn potatoes
Week Three
0
Day
- Stop watering onions
Week Four
0
Day
- Maintenance
Aug
Week One
0
Day
- Begin to harvest garlic & onions
Week Two
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Three
0
Day
- Prune summer fruiting raspberries
Week Four
0
Day
- Maintenance
Sep
Week One
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Two
0
Day
- Sow autumn spinach
- Plant autumn onion sets
Week Three
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Four
0
Day
- Maintenance
Oct
Week One
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Two
0
Day
- Take blackcurrant & pinkcurrant cuttings
- Prune blackberries after last fruit
- Grow on strawberry runners
Week Three
0
Day
- Take squash/pumpkins indoors to cure
Week Four
0
Day
- Maintenance
Nov
Week One
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Two
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Three
0
Day
- Plant garlic & winter onion sets
Week Four
0
Day
- Maintenance
Dec
Week One
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Two
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Three
0
Day
- Maintenance
Week Four
0
Day
- Mantenance