what to sow now?

[marcusexeter]

Hi there
I've now got two onion beds and a broad bean bed free, would anyone offer me any advice on what i can sow now apart from salad crops?

I guess it's getting a bit late for certain things, also down in Exeter here we have blight, all my early potatoes .

[marcusexeter]

[kt.]

As well as most of your successional salad crops,  you could sow carrots,  some peas.  (Kelvedon Wonder will be fine)

[saddad]

Autumn/ winter radish... not a small salad type but a big root like a turnip... can be grated to eat raw or diced and boiled etc like swede. Will grow well into Winter even here in Derby. Late carrots are also a good idea..

This was January...  ;D

[jonny211]

I've used my garlic beds for mini turnips (try snowball) or Pak choi.

[Chris Graham]

I'v just sown french beans in largish pots to move later to the greenhouse later in the year.

Not sure they will come to much but giving them a try.

[shirlton]

Ive just sown some chinese boccoli,Ambassador peas,fennel and some Boston beetroot will be goin in next week. Nearly forgot I put some chard in even tho I didn't like it much when I tried it. Am gonna find a way of cooking it, If not its pretty anyway

[Crystalmoon]

I use chard when it is young as raw salad leaves & really like it but i dont like it cooked when its mature either

[artichoke]

I've just sown a row of chicory for winter salads - the sort that sits in the ground looking like tough lettuce, not the big roots that you dig up to produce chicons. I grew a few of the lettuce-like ones last year and they were so good I'm trying for more. According to the packet they can be sown throughout July and August for winter use.

[antipodes]

I am still sowing late carrots, autumn spinach and French beans - After all they produce very quickly! If you will be frost free in Septembre you can have beans then.
Also good time for Florence fennel, rocket, lamb's lettuce for a late autumn crop, and I have only just planted out winter cabbage plug plants.
What about leeks bought as plants?

[Kendy]

Was thinking of Leeks too but a bit late to grow from seeds.  Hadn't though about buying them as plants - presumeably should be able to get some from a garden centre ?

[antipodes]

Yes they are usually sold in bunches, often 40 or 50, not in pots (in case that is what you were looking out for)  ;D
I proudly did my own this year but you are right, too late to sow now, I started mine yonks ago.

[Duke Ellington]

Kendy ...I got some leeks last week from the garden centre  :)

Duke

[Kendy]

Still time then !

[ladybizzy]

I grew from seed some dwarf beans and also courgettes really late last year (august I think) and got crops off both