Jobs through the year

Starting the year
January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow (Sara Coleridge)

Time to really get to work
April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet
(Sara Coleridge)

Weeding, watering and harvesting early
Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers (Sara Coleridge)

Pruning on, cutting back, plant overwintering veg
Fresh October brings the pheasants, then to gather nuts is pleasant (Sara Coleridge)

Greenhouses and onions
February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again
(Sara Coleridge)

Planting out in earnest
May brings flocks of pretty lambs, Skipping by their fleecy damns (Sara Coleridge)

Feeding, watering and harvest
August brings the sheaves of corn, then the harvest home is borne

(Sara Coleridge)

Harvest leeks, plant garlic, broad beans
Dull November brings the blast, then the leaves are whirling fast (Sara Coleridge)

Start sowing, dig vacant beds
March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil
(Sara Coleridge)

Planting on, harvesting early
June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hand with posies (Sara Coleridge)

Maincrop potatoes, Jeruselem artichokes, cuttings
Warm September brings the fruit, sportsmen then begin to shoot (Sara Coleridge)

Review the year and clean your tools
Chill December brings the sleet, blazing fire and Christmas treat (Sara Coleridge)