successional sowing

[aquilegia]

I never seem to get this right! We end up with a glut, then a gap.

I'd like to grow enough salad leaves, carrots, beetroot, spring onions, all the little things, to see us through the growing season (and maybe even into the winter - although I can't eat lettuce in the winter, but would like some for next spring!)

So far this year (well this month really) I've been sowing salad leaves about every 1-2 weeks. And have sown 2 lots of carrots and beetroot, probably about 2 weeks apart.

How often should I sow them?

[aquilegia]

[plainleaf2]

your still over planting at each interval.

[manicscousers]

we sow beetroot and carrots every month, they're pulled young and some left to bulk up..lettuce every two weeks, spring onions when I remember, radish same as lettuce, oriental greens same a slettuce but only during spring and autumn, can't wait for me cucumbers and tommies  ;D

[reddyreddy]

Hi aquilegia, I have the same problem and the same goal! This year I intend to sow 2 short rows of beetroot, spring onions, carrots, radishes and two longer rows of lettuce on the first of every month - I started April first so not behind yet  :P

[Digeroo]

Some types of carrot last through the winter better than others.  I also have some nice lettuce now that were sown in the autumn and overwintered under cloches.  I was quite surprised that they came through the winter.  I am not sure that I think you need to sow lettuce as often as every week.  I sow a mixture each time and so there is a longer cropping period so tend to sow about once a month.   Like plainleaf says I also seem to have plenty of lettuce which has gone to seed to feed the compost bin.

I am still eating the last of the carrots though they are a bit hairy now, being covered in tiny roots ok in a stew.  

I found last year that the things sown around the heatwave in June did not do very well, so had to start again once it started raining again.