Gardening tips for January: Plan the vegetable garden
Rotating your growing plan is the key to the successful vegetable garden and January is a useful time to plan

As a nation of born-again vegetable growers, we now prepare, as ever, for a year even better than the last. The good gardener is a record-keeper, so that we can avoid the howler of growing the same crop on the same soil each year. Rotate the growing plan so that brassicas are grown on one plot, onions, leeks and shallots on another, peas and beans another, carrots and parsnips another. It's not a perfect system, but it's workable and reasonably effective in keeping vigour up and disease down. A simple sketch retained each year will do nicely.
Sign up for the Country Life Newsletter
Exquisite houses, the beauty of Nature, and how to get the most from your life, straight to your inbox.
Bringing the quintessential English rural idle to life via interiors, food and drink, property and more Country Life’s travel content offers a window into the stunning scenery, imposing stately homes and quaint villages which make the UK’s countryside some of the most visited in the world.
-
Churchill's birthplace, Monet's London home and more in the Country Life Quiz of the Day
Try your luck at Monday's quiz of the day.
By Toby Keel Published
-
How the railways will save the countryside, with Gareth Dennis
The engineer and policy expert Gareth Dennis joins the Country Life Podcast.
By Toby Keel Last updated