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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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August 2026
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 (19 of 87 crops have an icon so far).
What to do in August
Sow in August: Spinach.
Plant out in August: Cabbage.
Harvest from August: Celery, Scotch Bonnet, Sweetcorn, Watermelon, Squash, Melon, Carrot, Apple, Pear, Plum, Fig, Peach.
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