Lift leeks to make room for new plantings. If you don’t want to eat them all now, heel them in as a bunch at the edge of the bed to keep them fresh for a bit longer.
Prepare empty beds, as soon as the soil is dry enough to work, adding well rotted manure, compost, seaweed or blood fish and bone, depending on what you intend to grow.
Plant early and salad potatoes from the middle of the month (unless the weather is particularly cold).
It’s the last chance to plant bare-rooted fruit trees,canes and bushes-they need to go in before buds start to break. Don’t let the roots dry out before you get them in.
Start sowing- from mid-month, weather permitting,peas,broad beans,parsnips and salad into prepared beds.
Plant onion sets when ground temperature reaches 7’C
Wash pots and trays ready for the season. This ,tho tiresome, is worth doing to prevent disease passing from one year to the next and gets rid of bugs and mould spores lurking in bits of old compost.
