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Late season veg
You can sow spring greens now, plant out in September and they will provide spring greens or if left they will heart up into cabbages in late spring/ early summer.
In October/ November you can sow winter hardy Broad Beans such as Aquadulce Claudia.
If you like onions then you could plant some Autumn sets in late September through October. These will mature earlier than the Spring sown ones.
With cloche protection you could also get a crop of lettuce if you try a variety like Winter Density.
Autumn sown peas? Most of these crops are designed to give you a head start in the spring rather than a winter crop.
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Oriental greens, like pak choi and mizuna can be sown now as can Florence fennel. Spinach and chard. Some of the small stubby type carrots will grow fast enough. Lettuce (Little Gem is a good bet). All of these will give you a harvest through the autumn. Winter purslane, lambs lettuce, endive and chicory will give you salad leaves into winter to go with your cloched 'Winter Density' or 'Marvel of the Four Seasons' lettuces.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
You could try a late sowing of Climbing french beans such as blue lake or one of the purple podded varieties as these tend to mature even more quickly. If you start them in pots or root trainers first then put out as plants they should give a crop into Autumn early winter as long as there is no frost. You can plant over winter Garlic same as for onions.
Let us know how you get on most of those things should have germinated by now.
All sounds good to me. Here's to some good late crops!