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 .
As well as most of your successional salad crops, you could sow carrots, some peas. (Kelvedon Wonder will be fine)
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..
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e190/Plot52/CarrotsJan.jpg)
This was January... ;D
I've used my garlic beds for mini turnips (try snowball) or Pak choi.
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.
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
I use chard when it is young as raw salad leaves & really like it but i dont like it cooked when its mature either
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.
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?
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 ?
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.
Kendy ...I got some leeks last week from the garden centre :)
Duke
Still time then !
I grew from seed some dwarf beans and also courgettes really late last year (august I think) and got crops off both