Savory and marjoram be as it were of the same savour to eat, and they be sown at the wane and stay only eight days in the earth. Item , savory lasteth only until St John's Day. Item , in the wane you should plant trees and vines and sow white and headed cabbage. Note that layers put out roots from the moment that they be planted. Spinach comes in February and has a long crenellated leaf like an oak leaf, and grows in tufts like greens and you must blanch them and cook them well afterwards.
Beets come later.
Note that it is good to plant raspberry-bushes and also raspberries March. Violets and gillyflowers sown in March or planted on St Remy's Day. Item , both of these, when the frosts draw near, you should replant in pots, at a season when the moon waneth, in order to set them under cover and keep them from the cold in a cellar, and by day set them in the air or in the sun and water them at such time that the water may be drunken up and the earth dry before you set them under cover, for never should you put them away wet in the evening. Plant beans and break the first shoot by raking them, as is aforesaid. Note that parsley sown on the Eve of Lady Day in March is above ground in nine days.