Mr Stanford likes to give tips because he's 'spent more years than I care to count' growing vegetables and fruit. Duffus and I think his tips are good but the Director often ignores them.
January
Your very first task this month is to make a list of all your seeds needed for the spring and summer and get them ordered. Mr Stanford uses the Real Seed Company (see 'links')
Then you must think about potatoes, more of which in the update very soon.
February
Think about fruit: prune autumn fruiting raspberries, gooseberries and currants
Plant rhubarb. Create a new strawberry bed - somewhere warm and sunny-using the plants you grew on from last year (or buying new ones!)
When fruit buds appear net to protect - or try a very scary scarecrow.See plot update for more about what to be doing this month