what can I plant in late october?

[mrsflibble]

what the subject says.


I will be container gardening to start with. I know that garlic will overwinter well if protected (have done it in the past, will do again no doubt) and that if i plant that in about late oct it will be ready about late march ish (i gague it by length of stalk not length of time)

but i have no experience of growing anything else other than glass-house tomatoes.

so... help?! thanks muchly.

[Peggy Sue]

There are a few days left in September, you can grow radish (I've done that in containers) and I bought some Landcress from The Real Seed Catalogue that you can sew til Sept, I think their Turnip greens can go in late too. Of course there's spring cabbage for next year if you are patient?

[SueSteve]

Onions sets can go in now for an early crop.

[ina]

Winter lettuce, and lamb's lettuce.

[Millymollymandy]

Coriander as it is unlikely to go to seed before the cooler weather starts and then you'll have a crop to pick all through winter.

[ina]

Before the cooler weather starts? Actually, I don't know where Mrs Flibble is staying - but we had -4.4 degree last night ground frost... OK, still a bit warmer up in the air, but not much! Think I need to wrap up my courgettes soon!

[Millymollymandy]

Sorry Ina! It's been warm and sunny and dry here for the last 3 weeks - not that I'm getting to enjoy it much though.

[ina]

You foot still bothering you that much? I was hoping you'd be able to get about a bit better now...

But you are right about the coriander - I should sow some in a pot, too. That way I can keep it off the cold ground, and bring it inside on really cold nights.

[Millymollymandy]

Still hopping around on crutches - the bone must be healed but the tendons most certainly aren't. Hubby has taken over the veg patch now and says IT'S HIS! I may as well just continue my life on the sofa eating too much chocolate and watching daytime TV.

Where's a gas oven when you need to stick your head in one?

[ina]

Where's a gas oven when you need to stick your head in one?

Better stick a nice cake in it...

[Millymollymandy]

But that's the problem - I'm getting fat!

[mrsflibble]

you see I wont have a garden until late oct, which is why I was asking about crops to be planted then... not now lol! I live in a flat that's 2 floors up at the moment!

[Stonehead]

you see I wont have a garden until late oct, which is why I was asking about crops to be planted then... not now lol! I live in a flat that's 2 floors up at the moment!

Plant under glass. We start our spring cabbage in propagators in September and then plant out in late October. The sun shining through the clear lid makes all the difference to germination rates compared with direct sowing (at least up here at this time of year). Just remember to harden off the seedlings before planting out and then firm them in hard.

You could do the same with broad beans, another crop that can be sown in autumn.

Garlic and onion sets grow a bit too fast if planted under glass at this time of year, but if you can put them in individual cells on an outside window ledge that might work. Then you could just plant the cells out later.

Anyway, have to go now. Good luck.

[Thomzo]

Don't forget fruit bushes. If you don't have much ground to plant in then you can put blueberries, strawberries, cranberries, apples, figs, even apricots and vine fruits into pots. You can always plant them out later on or keep them in pots in case you move again.

October is a great time to plant them.

Zoe

[ina]

Last year, I tried to get overwintering onion sets in October, but they were all sold out. In November I found some (while on holiday in Lerwick!), so I planted them when I got home in late November. Covered them in fleece, and they did very well indeed.