Plant garlic bulbs now

* If you missed the trick last month then now is the time to plant your garlic cloves.

* You can sow broad beans and hardy peas now to gain an early crop next year.

* I use the emptying of the veg beds as an opportunity to sow an overwintering green manure (a mixture of grazing rye and legumes) this acts as a ground cover that suppresses weeds but also hold nutrients in the soil for the spring.