The Kitchen Garden

Plant out cucumber into small pots

Sow peas, beans, carrots, radishes lettuces etc.

Examine Cauliflower plants and lettuces

Draw up the earth to the stems of peas and beans

Sow melons for the first crop, as well mustard, cresses, radishes and celery.

Sow cucumber and melon seed every ten days

Sow cabbages and savoys.

Plant garlic, rocambole, chives, onions and shallots.

Trench the ground for the principal crops of onions, carrots, parsnips etc.

Sow cross and Silesia lettuces

Transplant winter lettuces

Sow scorzonera, salsafy, borage and marigolds etc.

Plant horseradish

Sow curled parsley

prepare ground for new asparagus beds.

PLant asparagus for forcing

Sow the general crop of onions, carrots, peas, beets and parsnips, and plant beans and potatoes etc.

Plant out cauliflowers from under glasses.

Plant out cucumbers when they have five rough leaves.

The Orchard and Fruit Garden   Repair espaliers Finish pruning all sorts of fruit trees Dig the ground among the young fruit trees Plant cuttings of gooseberries and currants Sow the kernels of apples and pears Finish planting of fruit trees Make drains in the orchard, to keep it dry Destroy moss etc.Take away the mats from before the fig trees Plant out the stocks for budding and grafting Earth up and water the strawberries on hotbeds Graft at the end of the month. Continue on to March's work ... Or, return to Alamanac Front Page