Seasonal Gardening helps you understand what to do in your garden throughout the year. These guides focus on monthly and seasonal tasks, planting times and weather considerations for UK gardeners.
Share this Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp X Email Is it too late to plant tomatoes? In the UK, the honest answer for early August is: too late to start them from seed for this year, but not necessarily too late to buy and plant an established plant if you have a greenhouse or a warm, sheltered … Read more
Share this Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp X Email Is it too late to plant peas? In the UK it depends on where you are and which month you have reached, but the short answer for late summer is: it is borderline, and often worth a gamble. A quick early variety sown in early August can still … Read more
Share this Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp X Email Is it too late to plant vegetables? In the UK, the honest answer for early August is: for some crops yes, but for plenty of others there is still time, and a surprising amount can go in now for an autumn or even winter harvest. The crops whose … Read more
In September you can sow spinach, winter lettuce, rocket, oriental leaves, spring onions, radishes, chard, winter-hardy spring cabbage and green manures, and plant out garlic, autumn onion sets and overwintering broad beans towards the end of the month. It is also the best month of the year to sow a new lawn or repair a … Read more
The main jobs in the garden in August in the UK are keeping everything watered and fed through the driest weeks of the year, harvesting daily so crops keep producing, summer pruning fruit and trimming hedges and lavender, deadheading flowers, and sowing the salads, spinach and spring cabbage that carry you into autumn. It is … Read more
By the time August arrives, the allotment has usually stopped feeling like a race. The beans are climbing, the courgettes are out of control, and most of the spring panic about getting things in on time has passed. So a lot of people assume the sowing is over. It isn’t, not by a long way, … Read more
There is a strange myth that July is too late to sow anything, that the growing year is somehow over once the longest day has passed. It is completely wrong, and believing it means missing out on some of the best crops of the whole year. July is one of my busiest sowing months in … Read more
June is the month the garden finally pays you back. The slow grind of spring is behind you, the tender crops are out, the soil is warm, and suddenly everything starts growing properly. The trick in June is keeping up rather than catching up. A little work now spreads across months of harvests later. If … Read more
June is one of the best months in the UK gardening year. The soil is warm, frost risk has passed across most of the country, and there is still plenty of time for both direct sowings and transplanting tender crops that have been growing on indoors. Whether you are planting out for summer harvests or … Read more
May is a great month for flowers. The soil is warm, the days are long, and most things you plant now will be flowering by July. Whether you have a border, a veg patch, or just a few pots outside the back door, there is plenty you can get going in May. One thing to … Read more