Kitchen Garden - November

Vegetables

• Broads beans and peas can still be sown for an early crop, but make sure you protect the seeds with cloches otherwise they may end up as a meal for hungry mice.

• Finish planting garlic if you haven’t already.

• Carry on with winter digging when weather permits. Don’t trample on the soil if it is wet enough to stick to your boots as you will end up compacting it, which will do more harm than good.

• Peas can be sown for an early crop.

• If your cold frame is standing idle use it to grow a crop of carrots.

Herbs

• If you have a bay tree in a container make sure it’s in a sheltered place or protect it with fleece for the winter.

• There’s still time to lift parsley, chives and mint to be grown in pots on the kitchen windowsill. Plant the roots in J Arthur Bower’s Multi-Purpose Compost.

Fruit

• Established apple and pear trees can be winter-pruned this month. The aim should be to build up a framework of branches with lots of fruiting spurs on each one. Mulch after planting with a thick layer of organic matter such as homemade garden compost or New Horizon Mulch & Mix.

• A similar approach can be followed for gooseberry and redcurrant bushes. Mulch bushes after pruning with homemade garden compost or New Horizon Mulch & Mix.

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