Traditional Gardening Calendar dates

[veggiechicken]

I've heard about sowing onion seeds on Boxing Day and Planting spuds at Easter/St Patrick's Day, are there any other gardening tasks that are prompted by such days?
My thoughts are that a memorable date might be a trigger for lots of garden tasks - and that its easier to remember Good Friday than a random day in March, say.
(I know Easter is a movable date ).
Is there anything (garden - related) that you do on a specific day, each year?

Can we compile a Calendar between us??

Calendar suggestions

January
1st New Year's Day - Sow chillies (SP)

February

March
2 Burnie's Birthday - Sow tomatoes (Burnie)
17 St Patrick's day - Plant potatoes
19 St Joseph's Day - Plant tatties in France (Roitelet)

April

May
1st - May Day Bank Holiday - sow sweetcorn (GL)

June
Early June - Derby Day - Clip box (WendyC)
20-22 Longest day - Lift garlic (Scarey) & shallots (Thelma)

July

August

September

October

November

December

20/21st Shortest day - Plant garlic (Scarey) & shallots (Thelma)
26th - Boxing Day - Sow onions

[Small pumpkin]

I sow chillies on January 1st. I don't think I'm alone in that.

[scarey55]

The obvious one, sow garlic on the shortest day (Dec 21st) and harvest on the longest day (June 21st)

[burnie]

Sow Tomato seeds on my birthday in March(well I do)

[Greenleaves]

First May Bank holiday is when I sow sweetcorn

[mothhawk]

I've heard about sowing onion seeds on Boxing Day and Planting spuds at Easter/St Patrick's Day, are there any other gardening tasks that are prompted by such days?
My thoughts are that a memorable date might be a trigger for lots of garden tasks...

I have two triggers for gardening tasks.

1) Is the weather good enough to do it?

2) Do I feel like doing it today?

So much easier than trying to remember dates.....

[Thelma Sanders]

Shallots : plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest, oh just noticed same for garlic (Scarey)!

[scarey55]

Shallots : plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest, oh just noticed same for garlic (Scarey)!

Haha, great minds and all that
I think this goes for quite a few things

[Jimny14]

How about thinking of planting things in relation to when other things start to sprout in your area? My thinking on this is using wild or popular flowers and plants to trigger things as this would show weather conditions in areas better than dates.
Maybe planting potatoes as the hawthorn starts to go in to leaf? I don't know if that example would work but you get the idea.

[WendyC]

Clip box on/ after Derby Day. ( early June)

[roitelet]

Plant tatties on March 19th St Joseph's day, at least that is what they do here.

[Thelma Sanders]

Plant tatties on March 19th St Joseph's day, at least that is what they do here.

Round here peeps use St Patrick's day - March 17 to remind them to plant spuds

[Greenleaves]

Second weekend of June...plant out sweetcorn (weather permitting)

[Guest]

14th Feb - Valentines Heated prop goes on and I sow chillies, followed by toms then what ever I fancy as space becomes available.

20th April - relates to nothing major but is my last frost date so loads of sowings and plantings evolve around this, be it one month earlier - one later etc. etc.

21st June - Longest day - sowing biennials

20th October - First frost date. Again sowings and plantings evolve around this. So last plantings outside are a month before. Sowings in the greenhouse of hardy stuff and overwintering seed. Upto a month later for sowing sweet peas.