Nargis & Honeywort
Don’t dig bulbs and corms up — unless it is to divide them up when they become overcrowded — just leave them be.
Here are some of the bulbs and corms you may enjoy growing in your garden and, with planting time from the middle of this month on through to the middle or even the end of December, you have lots of time to make your selection. Narcissus (Nargis) and daffodils, in all of their various sizes and forms, jewel-bright tulips, incredibly perfumed Dutch hyacinths, deep blue grape hyacinths, glowing crocus, pretty sparaxis, gorgeous freesias, rannunculous in myriad dazzling hues, Dutch iris, miniature iris, Asiatic and Oriental lilies, anemones, amaryllis, rain lilies, tuberoses by the score and perhaps some begonias too.
Seeds to sow this month include the following:
In the vegetable garden: Broccoli, calabrese — with its intriguing, spiral-shaped, green heads — various winter and spring cabbage and cauliflower varieties, green onions, beetroot, carrots, turnips, rutabaga, red Russian and black Italian kale, curly kale, spinach, lettuce, raddichio, endive, chicory, mustard, giant red mustard, mustard greens, mustard mizuna, bush beans, climbing beans, broad beans, peas, sugar peas, onions, celery, French radish, Chinese, Russian and Spanish winter radish and, in the plains and coastal regions, tomatoes although they will need protection from winter cold.