UK growing conditions are temperate and relatively predictable. Here is a quick month-by-month guide.
Chillies and peppers indoors (long growing season). Sweet peas outdoors in mild areas. Onion seeds indoors. Prune apple and pear trees.
Tomatoes indoors. Broad beans, peas, salads direct outdoors (after last frost risk in late April). Potatoes chit and plant. Hardy annuals direct sow outdoors.
All tender plants go out after the last frost (mid-May in most of England). Courgettes, French beans, runner beans sow direct. Regular succession sowings of salad.
Harvest season. Continue succession salads. Sow spring onions, spinach and winter salads. Take cuttings from pelargoniums.
Sow hardy winter salads and spinach under cover. Plant spring bulbs. Sow garlic. Plant bare-root hedging and trees.
Plan your growing year with our free seed sowing planner and monthly garden planner.