what can I still sow/ plant? please advice.

[Berti]

what can I still sow now? I haven't been very lucky healthwise the last months so I was too late to start the sowing season, then got some plants and sowed some carrots/ parsnip for winter last month.

what else can I still sow so I have something to harvest still coming seasons? I'd like to sow some more carrots/ parsnips if possible.
anything that I can buy as plants still and plant now for next year harvesting? (raspberries come to mind, I had planned autumn raspberries..)

today I weeded out kneehigh weeds and lots of grass polls and now it's mostly clean again with growing mint, rhubarb, cauliflower, broccoli and the sowed carrots/ parsnips.

thanks
berti

[Ron and Jean]

What about some salad stuff that will be ready in a few weeks. You could still plant kale or purple sprouting broccoli for the spring.

[Marc]

Swiss chard as that grows very quickly, and you might be lucky with beetroot, worth a try.
Lots of different salad things, turnips, kohl rabi, winter radish. I'm sowing some of these myself.
Marc

[godfreyrob]

Here's a few to keep you going:

Broccoli Raab (Rapini)
Cabbage Chinese
Cabbage Spring
Carrot
Coriander
Lambs Lettuce - Corn Salad
Lettuce
Onion Japanese
Pak Choi
Parsley
Radish
Spinach
Rocket
Scorzonera
Swiss Chard
Turnip

And save a bit of space for planting Garlic cloves in October/November too.

[jim]

Dear Berti,

Chinese greens: pak choi, green in snow, mooli all come up fairly fast. Lettuce, but don't expect them to heart, just harvest leaves as they appear. You might be lucky with an early variety of carrots and spring onions,

Love and Peace
Jim

[Peggy Sue]

..and I've just sewn some land cress. Soon it's time to sew winter onions. Another 6 weeks and its time for planting garlic, overwintering peas and broad beans.

You might struggle with parsnips and carrots now, they seem to know the days are getting shorter not longer. Beetroot I find doesn't care so much

[snapdragon]

Have just cleared the 4x3 patch that had spuds in (which got blight so I had to harvest early) and a 3x2 patch that had onions - tops totally eaten by slugs.
I went mad and I've sown it up square foot style with some seeds that I found in the back of the cupboard (well I reckon they'll do or not, and it's not waste)
beetroot, spinach beet, onions, carrots, cress, some odd peas and beans, rocket, cabbage, and something without a label.
fingers crossed

[Peggy Sue]

I went mad and I've sown it up square foot style with some seeds that I found in the back of the cupboard (well I reckon they'll do or not, and it's not waste)
beetroot, spinach beet, onions, carrots, cress, some odd peas and beans, rocket, cabbage, and something without a label.
fingers crossed

Lets hope the 'something without a label' isn't huge or massively rambling (thinking of my rampent pumpkins....)

I reckon most of that will take, you may struggle with the cabbage depending on what type.... and ofcourse the 'something without a label' may struggle if its aubergines or something for greenhouses?!

[Berti]

thanks everyone for the advice.
few days ago I have sown additional parsnips, carrots and also little gem (cos) salad, and tom thumb salad plus red beets.
I will just see what will do :)
someone sweet from our allotment who has been there 25 years, gave me almost two rows of strawberry plants he grew, also!
things are starting to look more and more like an garden! I am getting *really* enthusiast woohoo......

I'd like to sow some chard and am on the lookout for seeds.
seems like I still can sow those and they give good harvest and are more winter hardy than spinach.

aside from this all I got myself two allotment gardening books, one of them is andy clevely's.
I borrowed Carol Klein's from the library which I like too.

plans are growing for next year :)
greetings
berti