Trap Grounds Allotment Association

Gardening Calendar

January

  • Order your seeds, onion sets and seed potatoes if not yet done
  • Start off garlic and shallots in pots in a cold frame
  • Give a potash dressing to strawberries, gooseberries and currants (white and red)
  • Sow sweet peas in a heated greenhouse
  • If you have a heated greenhouse, you can also sow French beans in pots
  • Start chitting your seed potatoes in pots in a cold frame
Picture from allotment library
Local Labour by David Allen