This section shows you what to do each month to grow the ten easy vegetables described in the Easy-to-Grow Vegetable Guide.

It begins in February, because this is the best time to prepare your new plot for planting. You need to design and construct your plot during the winter months to get in a full season's growing (see starter guide).

Only basic instructions are given for growing each vegetable. You will find more detailed instructions on the seed packets, and it is strongly recommended you obtain a good reference guide such as 'The Vegetable and Herb Expert' by Dr D.G. Hessayon, available in most bookshops.

If you follow the planting plan given earlier, you will be sure of growing each crop in its proper rotational sequence.

FEBRUARY

• Fork over beds, incorporating compost or manure where 'Other' crops are to be planted (see 'Crop rotation' in starter guide).
• Sprinkle a small amount of garden lime on the area where brassicas are to be planted.
• Put up posts and netting where broad beans are to be planted.

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MARCH

• Sow half your proposed area of broad beans and radishes, sow leeks.
• Chit potato tubers ready for planting out next month.

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APRIL

• Sow beetroots and carrots.
• Sow Brussels sprouts and curly kale, preferably in a separate part of the garden as they will need to be transplanted later in the year.
• Sow the rest of broad beans, lettuce.
• Plant onion sets, potato tubers.
• Thin radishes, leeks.

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MAY

• Sow rest of radishes.
• Thin beetroot, carrots, sprouts, curly kale, lettuce.
• Harvest radishes when suitable size.

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JUNE

• Transplant sprouts, leeks, kale.
• Continue thinning beetroot, carrots and radishes.
• Continue harvesting radishes.
• Harvest lettuce when a suitable size.

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JULY

• Continue harvesting radishes and lettuce.
• Harvest broad beans, carrots, beetroot, potatoes.
• Clear all surplus produce and tidy plot before summer holidays.

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AUGUST

• Take a break!

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SEPTEMBER

• Lift onions if foliage has died down.

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OCTOBER

• Lift any remaining potatoes and onions.
• Tidy up any empty areas and remove debris to compost heap.

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NOVEMBER

• Harvest leeks as they reach a suitable size.
• Fork over empty areas.

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DECEMBER

• Continue harvesting leeks.
• Pick kale shoots, starting at the top to encourage side shoots.
• Pick sprouts as they reach a suitable size.

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JANUARY

• Clear all remaining leeks, kale and sprouts.