Shh! I don’t want to say this too loud, but autumn is on the way. Let’s not think about it too much, but when you’ve got a minute, it’s worth planning your autumn and winter crops so that you don’t run bare when September ends.
The trouble is, at this time of the year, gardeners are so very busy keeping up with harvesting, tying in, feeding and weeding that they forget that things like lettuce, rocket and spinach might run out.
If your garden is very hot and dry at the moment, give the seed bed a jolly good water the day before sowing and shade with something, whether an umbrella, a fleece tunnel or an old sheet suspended over some canes. Keep the shade over the seed bed for a couple of weeks after sowing so your crops don’t get blasted by the summer sun.
Here are some crops to sow in the next three or four weeks to ensure that your garden is stocked right into the bleaker months of the year:
Beetroot (for leaves and roots), carrots, chicory, coriander, kale, kohl rabi, lettuce, mibuna, mizuna, mustard, peas, perpetual spinach, radishes, rocket, spinach, swiss chard.
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Sowed mine – said smugly:)
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Well done! What have you sown?