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long ready for planting in the spring.
If you have a cold, (unheated) greenhouse
broad beans and peas can be sown in modules or guttering ready to plant out in March to give an early crop before any pests become a problem. Garlic can be started in 9cm pots and once 8 to 10 cm high planted out, it is perfectly hardy but starting it in a greenhouse helps it to establish better.
Moving onto the flower garden, sweet peas can be sown in January. Start them off indoors but once they have germinated move them into a cold greenhouse or cold frame to harden them off and grow them fairly tough ready to plant out in early April.
If your garden is lacking in colour many garden centres sell bulbs like snowdrops and narcissi
in pots ready to plant out and give some early colour, also available are primulas, polyanthus, for-get-me- not’s and pansy’s. These will start to flower very soon once the milder weather starts and will flower right through the spring so they can give good value for money. Plant them out when the ground is not frozen or waterlogged to the same depth as in the pots / modules.
Enjoy your time in the garden in January. You will have done the garden good and your health!
Kelvin Mason, NVS
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