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Month By Month
Consider this your monthly reminder of jobs to be getting on with in the garden. Each month you can visit here to catch up on all your garden tasks, everything from sowing seeds, vegetable growing, pruning and general garden maintenance.
My suggestions and advice are from my own gardening experience.
A quick ‘go to’ list to keep you busy in your favourite place.
December 2023
December is commonly thought of as the quiet month but as always I will encourage you all to keep sowing and keep growing.
November 2023
This month brings with it lots of planning and anticipation for the coming season. I feel such disappointment when I hear people talking about laying down their tools for winter but it doesn’t have to be that way. Given the right variety, protection and timing you can continue to grow in your garden right up until spring.Â
October 2023
If you were hoping to prolong that summer feeling and avoid all mention autumn you have come to the wrong place. Although I will be the first to admit that it’s important to embrace the moment and if like me you’ve only just harvested your sweetcorn you can be forgiven for not wanting to be rushed into the next season. However autumn has always been my favourite time of year. I rejoice in the last of the warmth from the sun and the bite of the first frost in equal measure. But there are still plenty of jobs on my list to do this month, including harvesting and curing the pumpkins (or squash if you prefer).
September 2023
This month has evolved for me as a gardener, a few years ago I would have been prepping for autumn, meaning I’d be focussed on bulbs (mainly) and watching anxiously for that turn of colour in the leaves. But now September is different, perhaps I’m growing as a gardener and learning the key to a productive garden is planning, or perhaps the seasons have evolved and September is no longer the beginning of autumn but an extension of summer. I’d like to think it’s a little of both.
August 2023
What strange summer weather we are having, although it doesn’t appear to have bothered the plants too much and all the rain has certainly helped with the hose pipe ban we’ve had here in Devon since April! Right now I’m anxiously waiting for our apples to ripen and we have already begun harvesting our French pink onions called ‘Pink Panther’ which have been a delight this year.
July 2023
This month for me is all about the fruit, everything starts to deliver! Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries all start to show their jewels, ripe and ready for picking. Our red currant Rubus rubrum jonkheer van tets has out performed everything else this year and I just can’t wait to pick all the delicious berries.
June 2023
June is the beginning of the beginning. We all start thinking about either potting on or planting out. The most challenging thing in the garden this month is going to be the watering.
May 2023
May is going to be a busy month for me sowing wise, I’ve fallen a little behind (got too distracted with sowing copious amounts of chilli & tomato varieties) so I really need to get a move on.
April 2023
I think the very last week of March I suddenly realised that it was now light enough to get out into the garden past 5 o’clock, which I’m sure to make the most of now if only in between the showers!
March 2023
Is this it? Has Spring finally arrived? The Spring bulbs certainly seem to think so in this part of the country.
February 2023
It’s certainly nice to see bright blue skies but they come with a sharpness in the air...
January 2023
I don’t know about you but I’m always itching to get sowing in January.
December 2022
December has such a beautiful ethereal feel in the garden. And whilst the garden takes a big sigh and snuggles down for the festive period (not to say that it’s not still working away below the surface of the soil) so should we!
November 2022
November brings with it a chill in the air and potentially that first frost of the season, so this month make sure you are protecting your winter crops with fleece and mulch well.
October 2022
October used to be the month of warm colour as the leaves on the trees were in full autumn celebration but I’m finding this gorgeous display really only starts to kick in towards November. October for me is more about prepping the winter crops and giving back to the soil after such an exhausting summer.
September 2022
September is about the transition. We watch the bold blooms of summer slowly subside, along with the fading light, to the cooler freshness of the Autumn air.
August 2022
There is something about the glow of a warm August evening, the light seems thicker and warmer like a cosy pair of socks. There are a plethora of sun ripened fruits to be harvested and everything seems to be reaching that summer crescendo. August is the month of tomatoes, there is an overwhelming delight in that first sun ripened tomato and the taste never disappoints, which explains why we continue to grow them year after year.
July 2022
This month everything seems to be growing full steam ahead, beans are climbing, flower buds are forming and fruits are ripening.
June 2022
The first summer month is upon us and the garden is now in full flow. Beds and boarders are filling up and hopefully you are starting to reap some of the rewards of all that hard work.
May 2022
If you are anything like me you are playing catch up this month. I spent the end of March and beginning of April in hospital giving birth to the newest member of our team, my son Noah. So I am really behind where I should be and much of what I sown before going into hospital sadly didn’t make it through the two weeks of abandonment (not to self must invest in an irrigation system!). But whatever the reason, if you are running a little behind, don’t fear May is a great month to catch up, as generally with the good heat and sunlight, seeds tend to germinate quickly and you can direct sow saving yourself lots of space in the greenhouse.
April 2022
Everything just seems to spring into action this month (excuse the pun) it’s almost as though the garden takes a big stretch after a long winter slumber and it slowly starts to ignite the life that has remained dormant until now.
March 2022
I love to grow from seed and after all these years I still find it a remarkable process.
February 2022
This month my focus, like many of us gardeners, will be on sowing - it’s that exciting time of year when we can put into action our plan for our growing season. But this year February is also going to be my month to take note of the wildlife I’m attracting to the garden and ways in which I can entice more.
January 2022
Like most people I like to take time to reflect in January and contemplate the year ahead and I always without fail, sort and organise my seed tins!
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