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 February

What to do on the allotment in February


General Maintenance

Continue to protect plants against the weather
Check stakes and ties etc.
Hoe weeds when dry enough
Check the pH of the soil . Lime if necessary
Add manure to those beds that will need it in the new season
If dry enough begin digging and preparing beds
Check newly planted trees and firm around the roots
Check stores
Monitor for pests , slugs snails and big bud mite in currants

 Organic Allotment Gardening

Vegetables

Sowing

Planting
 Jerusalem artichoked (in warmer places.   In mild areas start sowing, cabbage, early carrots and hardy broad beans,
Onions and shallots from seed (unless growing from sets) 
Hardy green manures

Maintenance

Harvesting
Make a bean trench, dig trench fill with manure and recover.
Prep an asparagus bed get rid of all perennial weeds and dig in lots of well rotten manure or compost.		  

Greenhouse

Sowing    

Maintenance
Start off early peas in sections of guttering.
Sow tomatoes and aubergines		  

 Fruit

Planting   & Harvesting

Maintenance
  Protect flowers of soft fruit by covering with fleece
Spray with bushes and trees with a seaweed tonic
Weed and mulch beds regularily
Cut down Autumn Raspberries

 Herbs

Planting   

Maintenance
Sow Parsley & Chervil in bio pots as don't like to be moved
Divide mint to produce more plants
Divide chives		  

 
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