Now we at Daisy! don't claim to be authorities on vegetable growing, we're still at the experimental stage. Therefore we look for advice and guidance to our Veg Guru - Carol Klein and her Grow Your Own Veg book.
So with the onset of February we consulted her book in a bit of a panic, afraid that we were already behind!
Thankfully most of January's to do list was already done or not applicable:
'Continue harvesting your winter vegetables' - this assumes that you were organised enough to get any planted in the first place.
'Plant onions' - this was done in our patches in November so didn't need doing either.
'Take care with soil' - top news, you really shouldn't dig soil when it's sodden - it damages the soil structure! In our world this is great news, any excuse to avoid digging, mind you given the weather at the moment we may never be able to dig! The down side is that when the soil does finally dry out the amount of digging needed will be huge!
'Set out seed potatoes' - we haven't done this one, but will save egg boxes madly and set the seed potatoes in them to chit rose end up (or eyes/shoots up) as soon as possible - as soon as we've got some seed potatoes!
And Carol's final piece of advice - well, it appears every month - Look out for slugs and snails! So wellies on and brollies out and let's go patrol!
RHS Bookshop -Carol Klein's books
And now Carol's written a book on growing veg in pots! Hurrah!
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