Monthly gardening activities

Keep up to date with the monthly growing activities, garden maintanence and club crafts you can do with your children and young people across the year. Click on each month to get started.

January

February

March

Make your growing plans and purchase seeds.

Get ready to sow your sweet peas.

Start sowing your carrots and planting summer bulbs.

April

May

June

Chit and plant early potatoes and harvest your spring onions.

Harvest your spinach and pot up tomatoes.

Pinch out side shoots on tomatoes and turn compost bins.

July

August

September

Water plants more frequently and sow winter cabbages.

Harvest sweetcorn and courgettes.

Start buying and planting spring flowering bulbs.

October

November

December

Pick apples and other autumn fruits.

This month is a good time to plant trees.

Harvest remaining root crops such as leeks and parsnips.