Many beans and peas, for example, will grow happily over an arch and so don’t need to take up space on the ground. The Back to the Roots calendar is really something special, as it contains seeds of old varieties that have almost been forgotten. The cold weather has subsided, and the days are getting longer, so you can expect your veg plot to really start coming into its own this month. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. The calendar has been developed by primoza , a Bavarian start-up with a mission to help people experience and harness their natural bond with everything green and growing .

Regular readers will know that I am not keen having electric wires trailing around the garden and that I am a big fan of solar lights etc.

Take advice about where to site it – ideally on a north/south orientation so both sides of the polytunnel get equal amounts of sunlight – but if you have a strong prevailing wind, that will also need to be taken into account. Follow along with this 12-month vegetable sowing planner to learn how to get the most from your garden all year. This is also the ideal time to start harvesting root vegetables such as carrots, potatoes and swedes.

To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. For example, I do not recommend sowing spinachWe have found that it is best to tear the paper into really small pieces — roughly 1-2 cm wide — so that the seedlings are not too far from the light. My desire is to save you time, effort and money, through making all your inputs effective, from seeds and water, to the space in your garden. Some vegetables can be planted earlier or later in the year, especially if you’re sowing vegetables indoors prior to planting them outside. If I'm reading the guide correctly week 3 in February I should chit the potatoes but when should I plant them? Once you get stuck into vegetable gardening, your challenge will be not how to make stuff grow but what to do with gluts.