Sow lettuce, cabbage, peas and cauliflower in a heated greenhouse.

Plant new rhubarb crowns just below the surface.

If you'd like an early crop, plant broad beans in pots.

Tie in new blackberry shoots as they appear and before they get too long, and prune back blackcurrant bushes.

Start succession sowing of radishes and summer spinach.

If the ground isn't too hard or wet, sow your onion sets.

Sow your first peas in pots in the greenhouse, or directly in the ground under a fleece or cloche.

Cover your strawberry patch with fleece to keep the ground warm and protect the plants from the worst of the weather.

Top dress all fruit trees and soft fruit bushes with a general fertiliser at the recommended application rate. At the same time top dress the rest of the plot with a general fertiliser as land becomes available.

Check over any fruit trees and bushes for damage and disease problems and take appropriate action.

Prune late/autumn fruiting raspberries down as low as possible and mulch around them. Bend summer fruiting varieties over to a hoop shape to encourage the development of fruiting side shoots.

Complete any outstanding winter pruning of soft fruit bushes cutting out down to soil level the older dark stemmed shoots of blackcurrants.

Cover the soil with cloches or sheets of plastic to warm it up in readiness for the next batch of sowing and planting. Llittle and often is the plan over the coming weeks.

Check chitting potatoes and rub off any eyes that are unwanted, leaving three or four well-spaced shoots. Keep some fleece or newspapers handy to cover and protect them on frosty nights.

Regularly check the condition of any produce in store as it will stir after its winter dormancy and start to re-grow.

Dig a runner bean trench to a spade depth by 75cm wide and start to deposit green waste and other compostable material, including compost and well rotted manure in it, spread evenly along the length and width.

If the ground is soft enough continue digging your plot, turning in any weeds that have survived the winter. Lift perennial weeds and leave on the surface to die before composting.