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February Fruit Pruning to Boost Your Allotment Harvest
February may be the quietest month on your allotment, but it’s the perfect time to prepare your fruiting plants for a bountiful season. With careful pruning of apples, pears, berries, and grapes, you can improve plant health, boost flowering, and enjoy a bigger, healthier harvest later in the year.
Growing Vegetables in Containers on Your Allotment
From tomatoes and cucumbers to carrots, beans, and herbs, almost any vegetable can thrive in a pot or grow bag on your allotment. With the right container, compost, and care, you can enjoy a productive harvest all season.
The Ultimate Guide to Cabbage
Cabbage is a hardy, versatile allotment favourite. From tender summer leaves to robust winter heads, it’s perfect for salads, soups, stir-fries, or braises. Home-grown cabbage is fresher, sweeter, and packed with nutrients — a crop that rewards your plot and your plate.
December Gardening Checklist
December is a good month for tidying, digging when soil allows, protecting crops, checking stored veg, planting bare-root fruit, and cleaning greenhouses. Keep brassicas netted, continue broad bean sowings under cover, watch for pests, and support winter wildlife. Use this quieter time to plan next year’s plot, order seeds, and maintain tools.
November Gardening Checklist
In November, focus on tidying and protecting your allotment. Clear spent crops, fork and mulch beds, and harvest hardy vegetables such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts, leeks, and parsnips. Plant garlic, overwintering onions, and spring bulbs, sow or transplant broad beans and lettuces under protection, and insulate tender greenhouse plants.
Your October Gardening Checklist
October is a month for harvesting pumpkins, squashes, potatoes, and leeks, sowing hardy crops like spinach, kale, and broad beans, and planting spring cabbage, onions, garlic, and rhubarb crowns. Mulch beds, tidy paths, protect greenhouse plants, and leave seedheads for birds while preparing your allotment for winter.
Your September Allotment Checklist
Harvest, sow, and prep your allotment to stay productive through autumn and into spring
August Gardening Checklist
August is the month when your hard work truly pays off. Plots are overflowing with produce, but this is no time to relax—cool, damp nights can lead to rot and disease. Keep on top of watering, feeding, and clearing spent crops to keep everything thriving through the late summer.
July Gardening Checklist
July is hot and busy—water and feed crops, lift shallots, plant winter brassicas, sow salads in shade, thin roots, mulch fruit trees, watch for pests, ventilate greenhouses, and harvest early crops like beans and strawberries.
20 Perennial Vegetables to Grow for a Low-Maintenance, High-Yield Plot
Discover 20 perennial vegetables that grow back year after year with minimal effort. From rhubarb and asparagus to lesser-known gems like Good King Henry and walking onions, these resilient crops offer long-term harvests, improve soil health, and reduce garden chores—making them perfect for low-maintenance, sustainable gardening.
June Gardening Checklist
June brings early harvests and active summer planting. Stay alert for pests and late frosts, and keep up with essential maintenance. Here's your allotment checklist for the month.
How to Support Climbing and Bushy Plants on Your Allotment
Give your allotment plants the support they need to thrive. From climbing beans to bushy dahlias, this guide explores traditional and modern ways to keep plants healthy, upright, and productive using trellises, obelisks, circular supports, and more.
May Gardening Checklist
May brings warmer weather and growth in full swing. Sow and plant key crops, protect from late frosts, and watch for pests. Read on for more tips!
Your April Allotment Checklist
April brings longer days and warmth, but beware of late frosts. Prepare soil, plant key crops, and protect young plants. Read on for more tips!
Your March Gardening Checklist
March marks the start of spring, making it the perfect time to sow seeds, plant vegetables, and prepare your garden. Focus on tasks like planting strawberries, protecting fruit trees from frost, and starting greenhouse crops.
Your February Gardening Checklist
Make the most of February by tidying up, planning crops, and starting early sowings under cover. Sow broad beans, cauliflowers, and hardy annuals, lift root vegetables, and prep for spring. Get ready for a productive season ahead!
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