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?
your still over planting at each interval.
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
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
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.