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Timothy with a bumper crop of carrots

Timmy's Garden

Ever wondered when's the best time to sow your seeds, plant your potatoes or turn your turf?Timothy O'Neill from Felinwynt near Cardigan reveals all in the secret diary of a vegetable gardener.

January

The luxury of a polytunnel allows for the planting of early potatoes indoors...

February

The previous year's celeriac is harvested as temperatures plummet...

March

The potatoes are showing and the lettuce grow leggy...

April

Peas sown in some gutterering provide a novel gardening solution...

May

Dry weather calls for irrigation but there's a bumper crop of carrots...

June

Early potatoes are lifted, broad beans are picked and a pumpkin planted...

July

Potatoes prove a mixed bag and ground is cleared for cauliflowers...

August

A coarse crop of runner beans but the tomatoes yield 10lbs at one picking...

September

September is a time of clearance in the polytunnel...

October

The keynote of the Crown Prince Pumpkin Harvest is quality not quantity...

November to December

The last acts of the gardening year are a time for reflection...

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