Deepest darkest winter.
Not much at all to do on the plot, except on the fruit bed - mulch the rhubarb and plant any new trees or bushes.
Chit your seed potatoes, and look after your onion sets.
General Tasks
» Try to get your digging done before or after February; the soil is likely to be too cold, wet or waterlogged to do very much this month.
» Add lime, if necessary, to last year's potato bed (at least 6 weeks before/after manuring)
» Harvesting - Check crops in store - remove any doubtful potatoes, onions, and roots.
Potato/Tomato family (Solanums)
» Chit seed potatoes.
Bean/Pea family (Legumes)
» Nothing doing.
Brassica family
» Spring clean Brassica beds.
» Feed spring cabbage.
» Harvesting - Broccoli (Winter Sprouting), Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage (Winter and Savoy), Kale.
Root vegetables
» Sow Parsnip (in week 4? - but probably still too early).
» Harvesting - Parsnip; lift the last of the salsify and scorzonera before they regrow, and use up the last of your stored carrots.
Onion family (Alliums)
» Plant shallots (in week 4).
» Sow first spring onions.
» Harvesting - Leeks.
Other vegetable families
» Harvesting - Winter Spinach, Chard; use up the last of any stored beetroot before they regrow.
Herbs
» Divide Chives, Sage, and Thyme and cut back excess growth.
Fruit
» Lift some mature rhubarb crowns, split and replant; mulch of compost over rhubarb crowns.
» Last chance to plant new bushes and rasp canes.