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I've been sowing more florence fennel, swiss chard and some purple pak choi this week.

Interested to know what others are sowing at the moment. I need some inspiration!

red spring onions, another salading sowing, spinach, foxgloves, canterbury bells

beetroot tomorrow, slugs (or possibly pigeons) have had the whole lot of my first sowings.... grr....

On Monday, hopefully, albino beetroot, chard, carrot, spring onion, swede and lettuce.

I was thinking about some dwarf french beans? any thoughts?

I put another row of purple podded mange tout in last week, they're just showing. Lots of dwarf french beans coming up, the bit of warm has made a big difference. Fennel and swede will be going in on monday, then, end of august, the oriental veggies will be sown  :)

I normally do more dwarf beans and runners at this time of year.  Dwarf are better since easier to throw over a cloche.   Very pleased with Teepee for this and Wisley magic for the runners have produced good late results for me.

Quote from: campanula on July 07, 2012, 15:15:17
red spring onions, another salading sowing, spinach, foxgloves, canterbury bells

Red spring onions sound good. I might just try those campanula!

I was a bit disappointed with my red spring onions. They weren't very red. Can you earth them up them like leeks to get a longer red bit?

some of them are only red on the outside while there is one sort (apache, maybe) which is red right through. No difference in taste though, at least none I could notice. They are the only alliums I can grow in the open ground as my site has white rot.

Just sown some more lettuce and loads of beetroot

Getting some dry weather down in the West for a change.  Sowed lettuce, corn salad, candela radish, Mustard, and stuck some dwarf french beans in with my struggling runner beans at foot of wigwam.  Third sowing of peas tomorrow, planting out perennial young plants in flower plot.

Caro

I am going to put French beans in this week.

I set my third sowing of blue lake french beans - third time lucky! my last sowing of peas - kelvedon wonder and some pak choi yesterday. Also harvested the pulsatilla, saxifrage and auricula seeds half of which i will so now to see if i can get some young plants overwintering.

Might have another go with some salads and spring onion as they largely failed earlier and have been eating some very firey salads as the sweet leaves were the ones to falter and or bolt! 

Last year there was a autumn/winter sowing sticky thread packed with ideas so might have a search for that on the next rainy day.
xx sunloving

I am starting my spring greens.   Last year they were tiny and were hardly worth eating so decided to start a bit earlier this year.

You lot are inspiring me!

I was going to give up sowing stuff this year...but maybe I'll sow a few rows of something! ..then cover with slug pellets  ;D

When the peas come out I will put in a last row of French beans so we can eat them through to October.
I will probably do another row of beetroot too. I have some chinese cabbage left, it was rubbish in spring but maybe if sown now I will have more luck. Then a few more late lettuces and probably a bit of coriander for autumn, that works well at this time of year.

Springies, Beetroot and Carrots, got to get my mixed lettuce leaves in.  ::)

Today sowed komatsuna, senposia, china rose radish, more leafbeet, spinach and planted egyptian walking onions.

There is no excuse for empty space on my allotment ;)

I want chard for winter so am sowing some in modules