Vegetable Gardening In The Month Of December

If birds get hungry they will attack your Brussels sprouts, cabbages and cauliflowers. Protect them with nets.

In severe weather, protect broad beans sown last month by earthing up the seedlings.

Cover a corner of your parsnip bed with straw or newspaper, and you will still be able to lift the parsnips even if the rest of the ground is frozen hard.
Firm brassicas lifted by the frost. Lift chicory to force under glass.