PlantSowGrowWhat to sow and plant each month
Pick a month to see everything you can sow, plant and harvest then, with a link to the growing guide for each plant. This month: November.
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April, first frost late October).
- January12 to sow · 0 to plant · 10 to harvest
January is planning time: order seeds, sort out pots and labels, and set seed potatoes to chit from the end of the month.
- February42 to sow · 5 to plant · 2 to harvest
Days are lengthening and the sowing season starts indoors: peppers, chillies and aubergines need a long season, so they go in early on a warm windowsill.
- March92 to sow · 22 to plant · 6 to harvest
March is when sowing really begins.
- April122 to sow · 71 to plant · 17 to harvest
In a typical UK garden the last frost comes around mid-April, so this is the busiest sowing month.
- May128 to sow · 86 to plant · 52 to harvest
Late spring is when tender crops go outside: tomatoes, courgettes, squash, sweetcorn and beans.
- June84 to sow · 40 to plant · 82 to harvest
Everything is growing fast.
- July49 to sow · 5 to plant · 116 to harvest
Harvests pick up, and it is time to think about autumn and winter: sow quick salads, oriental leaves and the last rows of carrots and beetroot.
- August30 to sow · 7 to plant · 108 to harvest
Keep picking so plants keep cropping.
- September12 to sow · 27 to plant · 86 to harvest
Main crops come in and planting for next spring begins: spring bulbs, overwintering onions and hardy perennials go in while the soil is still warm.
- October4 to sow · 25 to plant · 55 to harvest
The first frost in a typical UK garden arrives in the second half of October.
- November3 to sow · 3 to plant · 22 to harvest
Tulips, garlic and bare-root trees and fruit bushes go in this month while the soil is still workable.
- December1 to sow · 2 to plant · 15 to harvest
A quiet month in the garden: plant bare-root trees and bushes when the ground isn't frozen, winter prune apples and pears, and plan next year's beds.