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Welcome to Grow Cookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, joined today for Jobs in the Garden by Josie Lewis, our head gardener at Perch Hill.

And we're just going to run through really rapidly and simply the jobs that we are doing in the garden in the month of February.

And I'm going to start with

the edible crops because I guess that's sort of one of the areas of the garden. Well, I'm involved

with all the garden. But I mean, Josie is definitely more ornamental girl than I am. No, that's not

true either. But anyway. No, I like that though. I like that name. So we're starting to sew salad

leaves now and hard hardy herbs into gutters. So things like parsley, cherville, coriander,

all sewn now. And in terms of salad leaves, rockets, metzunas, mustards and the cut-and-come-again lettuces. So all those are being

sown now in February. I always think once Valentine's Day is past, I get on with sewing those

into gutters and also sewing early vegetables into gutters. So again, you know, lettuces, radishes,

onions, chard, spring onions, peas and sugar snaps.

I'm crazy about the sugar snap called Nairobi, and February is the first moment to sew that

into a gutter and then allow it to grow on. If you've got a greenhouse, put it in there because

you'll have an earlier crop, six weeks earlier than in the garden. But if you you haven't into the garden or the allotment it's the second sewing of broad beans

into root trainers and those can go out in four to six weeks time so i'd try and sew those at the

beginning of february for getting out sort of first second week of march they're really hardy

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