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My pick for Spring seed sowing would be root vegetables like Japanese turnips, swedes, carrots, and parsnips.
There will also be time for planting seedlings of cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, leeks. celeriac, kohlrabi, and Florence fennel.
Carrots and parsnips can be sown directly into well-drained sandy soil. Make sure the soil is weed free, then rake, in preparation for making shallow seed rows into which you will sprinkle the seeds. Carrot seed is small, and it is hard to space the seeds out evenly, so once the seedlings come through you will need to thin them out.
My pick for Spring seed sowing would be root vegetables like Japanese turnips, swedes, carrots, and parsnips.
Cover the seeds with bent wire frames and then old net curtains, frost cloth, or light green shade cloth. This will help with germination and also keep the birds off.
Parsnips also like a loose soil. The seed is slow to germinate, often taking three weeks.
Parsnip seeds also loses its very quickly, so I always let one of my plants go to seed and collect fresh seed for the Spring planting.
Sow swedes and turnips seeds directly into the garden. Prepare the soil as for carrots and cover as well. You will find these seeds are up in less than a week (depending on the warmth of the soil).
When deciding what to plant, gardening is all about timing. Climate change continues to influence seasonal change, making it harder to judge just when to plant seeds and seedlings. So instead of worrying about what to plant each month.
Swedes are delicious mashed with carrots and celeriac, while turnip leaves are very nutritious and can be stir-fried or steamed like silverbeet.
When deciding what to plant, gardening is all about timing. Climate change continues
to influence seasonal change, making it harder to judge just when to plant seeds and
seedlings. So instead of worrying about what to plant each month, try to understand
the difference between warm-season crops that thrive in the heat and cool-season
crops that have seeds which will struggle to germinate in hot temperatures.
Peas are a wonderful spring crop to plant with children as there is the fun of making a
frame for the peas to climb.
Plant seeds in punnets and keep inside until they are well up. Then make sure you
have captured the slugs and snails before you plant them out.
Seize the day – there is no better time to get into action in the garden than right now!
