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What veg to sow now?

PoppypussPoppypuss Posts: 143
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I’ve got space in a raised bed now that the last of the cabbages have been harvested so I’m looking for inspiration on the next crop to grow there. I’ve got a net cloche for protection so maybe something that can sit in the ground over winter to be harvested next spring or summer. I’m sure I remember Monty planting out some sprouting broccoli plugs a few weeks back but have I left it too late now?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve just germinated spinach seeds. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • InTheMoorlandsInTheMoorlands Posts: 161
    I've just planted Swedes - a bit late but they should be OK
    At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines.  Clay soil.  
  • PoppypussPoppypuss Posts: 143
    @Lyn was that the annual spinach or perpetual type. My OH loves spinach so good call, I just thought I might have missed the boat and they would bolt. 
    @InTheMoorlands Now that’s an idea too, I’ve never grown swedes, do they take up a lot of room?
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I'm in a warmer clime but I sowed broccoli, spinach and root vegetables  beetroot and carrots) 2 weeks ago.  I sowed turnips about 4 weeks ago.

    Better get a move on - the nights are longer and cooler.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • InTheMoorlandsInTheMoorlands Posts: 161
    @Poppypuss I’ve never grown swedes, do they take up a lot of room?


    Not too much.  I've got three to a growbag.  They should really go in around July but you might get away with it depending where you are.

    At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines.  Clay soil.  
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Poppypuss said:
    @Lyn was that the annual spinach or perpetual type. My OH loves spinach so good call, I just thought I might have missed the boat and they would bolt. 
    @InTheMoorlands Now that’s an idea too, I’ve never grown swedes, do they take up a lot of room?
    This one Poppy, 
    https://www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/spinach-giant-winter/classid.2000014682/

    @InTheMoorlands is that really profitable,  3 swedes to a growbag is a bit expensive surely. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • PoppypussPoppypuss Posts: 143
    @Lyn That looks great, just what I'm after. Hopefully I can get the seeds before September. I'm in West Lancashire so surprisingly mild here but I think I'm still best getting a move on.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I call that Silver Beet @Lyn  which I love!!   This is what i call spinach.

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/vegetables/spinach/grow-your-own

    Sorry about the site, but it's the only photo I could find of spinach as I know it.

    Anyway, spinach or silver beet (Swiss Chard) is all delicious!!  I prefer spinach raw in a salad with bacon bits and a garlicky vinaigrette.  Silver beet is better cooked.  So....
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited August 2023
    Me too @tui34 re young spinach in a variety of mixed leaf salads and with bacon bits, chicken livers, marinated salmon, smoked tuna.........

    It's very dry here and OH is away and my new knee is not yet up to clearing veggie beds so I shall have to wait a week or two to sow some Swiss chard and more beetroot and I might even have a go at carrots if we get some rain.   Too dry in spring but should still be warm enough to get a crop.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @Obelixx  Just had a little salad with first spinach leaves - no lardons fumés but plenty of garlic and olive oil vinaigrette!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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