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UK Sowing Calendar
A real month, laid out like an actual planner. An icon appears in the month a crop's window opens, spread across the days so the calendar reads at a glance instead of piling everything on the 1st. All timings are for UK growing conditions.
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October 2026
What to do in October
Sow in October: Garlic, Broad Bean.
Plant out in October: Blueberry, Strawberry.
Harvest from October: Celeriac, Brussels Sprouts, Swede, Parsnip, Cabbage, Spinach, Green Manure.
How this calendar works
Crops are ordered by total growing time (sprout, establish and mature weeks combined): the slowest-growing crops that month land on earlier days, the quickest land later, so a glance at the calendar roughly tracks what needs the most lead time. The underlying data is month-level rather than day-precise, so treat a crop's day within the month as a spread position, not a specific real date. Where a real garden-plot icon exists it's used; everything else falls back to the crop's own photo (43 of 87 crops have an icon so far).
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