I will try again this year to grow salad bits including radishes. All the seeds i planted rotted in the wet. Very disheartening but i will survive. If i dont keep falling over that is.
Florence fennel, turnips, dwarf french beans (in the south) and most of the oriental brassicas.You could check out the big seed companies, they will have collections of vegetable plants.
After watching GW on iplayer tonight and the bit about sowing vegs, check your seed packets and sowing dates, I'm adding to my list of things to sow this week - kohl, swede, carrots and mooli.
have been given some onion sets that have started to sprout and i have just put them in-does anyone know if it is worth trying some in a coldframe in big pots over winter?
Worth a try maybe if you can really insulate things?
Have just sown 2 sorts of kale, 2 sorts of chard & they both should still be ok to pick next Feb. Corn salad too keeps well in the ground. More salad leaves also gone in.
Am also trying dwarf French beans in pots after my runners were well & truely attacked by the slimey bunch. J.
I sowed some peas on damp kitchen roll a few weeks ago, they have just gone outside in small pots. Didn't manage to sow any seeds last weekend but the grounds been cleared and my xmas spuds have arrived. Also potted up about 30 strawberry plants grown from seed, the white and yellow variety, hoping they'll be ready tp plant out in Sept for next year.
I am about to sow a second lot of spinach as the first has bolted in this heat, pak choi which bolts if sown earlier, carrots in a tub as they don't like my soil, beetroot and some more lettuce. I have purple sprouting broccoli to go out and some cavolo nero babies too. These two should do for winter with some protection.
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I will try again this year to grow salad bits including radishes. All the seeds i planted rotted in the wet. Very disheartening but i will survive. If i dont keep falling over that is.
Ooh, Xmas Spuds, hadn't thought of those
Florence fennel, turnips, dwarf french beans (in the south) and most of the oriental brassicas.You could check out the big seed companies, they will have collections of vegetable plants.
After watching GW on iplayer tonight and the bit about sowing vegs, check your seed packets and sowing dates, I'm adding to my list of things to sow this week - kohl, swede, carrots and mooli.
oh carrots! i have tried twice to grow carrots and they just havnt come up this year so will try again, but will i need a different kind of carrot?
have been given some onion sets that have started to sprout and i have just put them in-does anyone know if it is worth trying some in a coldframe in big pots over winter?
Worth a try maybe if you can really insulate things?
Have just sown 2 sorts of kale, 2 sorts of chard & they both should still be ok to pick next Feb. Corn salad too keeps well in the ground. More salad leaves also gone in.
Am also trying dwarf French beans in pots after my runners were well & truely attacked by the slimey bunch. J.
I sowed some peas on damp kitchen roll a few weeks ago, they have just gone outside in small pots. Didn't manage to sow any seeds last weekend but the grounds been cleared and my xmas spuds have arrived. Also potted up about 30 strawberry plants grown from seed, the white and yellow variety, hoping they'll be ready tp plant out in Sept for next year.
There was a chap called Tee Gee who used to post on the Beeb and who has a website which includes, amongst other things, a sowing and planting guide - http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Planners/Preamble.htm
I am about to sow a second lot of spinach as the first has bolted in this heat, pak choi which bolts if sown earlier, carrots in a tub as they don't like my soil, beetroot and some more lettuce. I have purple sprouting broccoli to go out and some cavolo nero babies too. These two should do for winter with some protection.
have just sown another row of carrots 4 rows of spinach and raddichio and put in 4 pumkin babys fingers and everything else crossed