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Fruit & Veg checklist

Fruit and Veg checklist

10 - 16 March 2008

Potato crop in a pot

Use this page as a checklist for this week's most important tasks.

It's printer friendly so you could pin it up in your garden shed.

It's time to...

It's time to...
  • To harvest new potatoes in June, grow an early-maturing variety in a large pot of compost
  • Fork compost into beds to prepare soil for planting
  • Chit potatoes by standing them in trays in a warm bright position until they develop small shoots
  • Dig out problem weeds and emerging annual weeds
  • Plant Jerusalem artichokes
  • Cover rhubarb with forcing jars to encourage long, delicious pale stems
  • Sow the following crops outside or under cloches: carrots, beetroot, broad beans, salad onions, cauliflower, cabbage, spinach, leeks, lettuce, rocket, coriander, mixed salad or stir fry leaves, radish, turnip, peas, lettuce and Swiss chard

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