These might give you an idea of what you can get away with in your area!! I can push the limits where I am so can grow more than most ... but fleece and cloche will do just the same ;)
Hope it helps ... Flo ;)
all as per Which? gardening
beetroot - 8-10 weeks
carrots - 10 weeks
dwarf beans - 8-12 weeks
chinese cabbage - 10 weeks
leaf beet - 12 weeks
lettuce - loose leaf - 6-8 weeks
lettuce - cos - 10-12 weeks
pak choi - 8 weeks
peas - 12 weeks
radish - 4-8 weeks
rocket - 6 weeks
spinach - 8 weeks
spring onions - 8 weeks
turnips - 8-10 weeks
I have also looked at Joy Larkcoms's list ... her book is my bible !! ;D
amaranthus - 6-8 weeks
broccoli chinese - 7-9 weeks
ditto raab - 7-8 weeks
choy sum - 7 weeks
chrysanthemum greens 4-8 weeks (what are these like???)
komatsuna - 8 weeks
land cress - 8 weeks
mibuna - 10 weeks
mizuna - 8 weeks
saladini oriental - 3-4 weeks
purslane - 8 weeks
senposai - 4-5 weeks
texel greens - 3-4 weeks
Quotechrysanthemum greens
I've grown them and like them.. but OH doesn't so I don't grow them anymore
"distinctive" is the best description for the taste.. ;D
Are they all germination times, 'cos nothing I sow matures in anything like those times. I must be growing in 'grow slow soil' :)
Quote from: terrier on September 13, 2009, 01:09:11
Are they all germination times, 'cos nothing I sow matures in anything like those times. I must be growing in 'grow slow soil' :)
;D ;D ;D
Yes I can empathise with that. The only thing that seems to grow "by the book" is beetroot. Stuff i sowed a month ago is only a few centimetres - some not yet germinated, although that could be down to duff seed.
Thanks for the list though, Flo. I'm going to print it out and start monitoring more closely exactly how long things take. I suppose they are talking best time scenarios though and different growing conditions and soil temperatures will no doubt affect that.
Not to mention LOTS of water !! :o ;D
I've just put in some beetroot, radish and salads... have a late shot at beans and peas already going along with a last soawing of carrots and spring onions...plud tring an experiment... the oca collapsed outwards (as expected) a while ago and I earthed it up in the middle... I've sown som radish and beetroot on the earthing as they'll be under fleece from about a weeks time until December.....
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