1 Check through any stored onions, parsnips, potatoes and carrots for soft rot and mice damage and remove damaged and infected ones to avoid further problems. It is best not to compost infected vegetables as the spores may be handed on to next year’s crops. If you are just starting the vegetable growing game, now is a good time to build raised beds and compost bins in readiness for the 2011 growing season. Open up a bean trench now so that you can gradually fill it with shredded paper and cardboard from Christmas wrappings and vegetative waste from your Christmas dinner – half-eaten sprouts and so on.The birds might find a tasty meal while you are working as well as you getting some important exercise and fresh air.Read
