Trap Grounds Allotment Association

February

• Start sowing cabbage, lettuce, peas and cauliflower in a heated greenhouse
• Plant new rhubarb crowns just below the surface
• You can start sowing parsnip seed, but it may be too cold to germinate
• Plant broad beans in pots for an early crop
• Check your stored potatoes from last year; rub off any sprouts appearing
• Tie in new blackberry shoots as they appear and before they get too long
• Start successional sowing of summer spinach
• Start successional sowing of radishes
• You can start sowing your onion sets now if the ground is not too hard or wet
• Sow your first peas in pots in the cold frame or under fleece direct into the ground
• Cover your strawberry patch with fleece or a cloche to warm up the ground
• Prune blackcurrant bushes