Vegetable A - B

Vegetable C - G

Vegetable H - L

Vegetable M - R

Vegetable S - Z

Name

Plant

Harvest

Pest

Details

Shallot

Dec-Mar

Jun-Sep, harvested in clumps

Onion fly

Grown from sets. Prepare soil with general purpose fertiliser. Plant into soil with tops just visible 20cms apart.

May bolt in hot summers.

Spinach

All year

Alternate plants - best fresh

Fussy vegetable, needs light but not in direct sun as can go to seed easily. Before sowing dig soil and use general purpose fertiliser.

Sow seeds in rows 25cms apart. Thin out to 8cms apart

Swede

May-June

Nov-Mar

Cabbage fruit fly, clubroot

Slow growing and hardy. Use general fertiliser a few days before sowing 2cms deep in rows, thin out to 25cms apart. Do not like being transplanted.

Keep moist to stop from splitting.

Sweetcorn

Sow:

April

Plant out:

May

Harvest when tassels turn brown

Plant several seeds in pots in compost 2.5cms deep. Thin out leaving only strongest when 2cms tall. Before planting out, use general fertiliser on ground.

Plant out in blocks. Keep well watered and weed free.

Tomato

Green house: Feb-Mar

Outdoors: April-May

When fruit ripe and coloured

There are so many varieties to choose from. Sow seeds in compost in pots. When 5cms high, plant out into individual pots. When 15cms high plant into growbags, containers or raised beds. If planting in soil mix in organic matter. Support with stakes. Tomato plants require full sun. Keep moist or fruit may split. Water with liquid tomato feed when flowers appear.

Turnip

Under cloches: early Feb

Main crop: Jul -Aug

Early : May -Sept

Main crop: Oct onwards

Thin out  until they  are 15cm  apart for early  crops, or 23cm apart for main crop.

Water during dry  weather to prevent  roots growing small and woody.