What are you SOWING in your veg garden this month and next?

[anonymousbird]

I've put in:
New supplies of lettuce, pak choi, spring onions, radish, rocket, spicy leaves etc.

Purple Sprouting
Curly Kale
Spring Cabbage
Turnips
Spinach
My leeks went in a couple of weeks back.

Intending to do some other oriental veg - does anyone have recommendations for that, and anything else good to sow now either to produce this year or in the spring?

Many thanks

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Anonymous bird, re: oriental veg I'm about to sow...

tatsoi
choi sum
giant red mustard
oriental cabbage.

Also on my list is

Perpetual spinach
Final carrots (quick maturing)
Beetroot
Dwarf beans (quick maturing)

You could also do christmas potatoes now.

Christmas potatoes??! In all these years, never done (or heard of!) those.. I will be investigating those right away....

Do the dwarf beans mature fast enough? I did see a reference to those the other day, and must admit to being a bit sceptical - along with a Broad Bean variety I think?

Thanks for the oriental tips - I am on the case

Yes you can buy cold-stored tubers now and they will crop Nov/Dec time. You don't chit them by all accounts but plant them straight away. Dobies sell them amongst others.

Not sure if the beans will mature in time but going to give it a go. Can always cloche if the weather turns nasty.

Forgot to say, are you doing mizuna, mibuna etc in your spicy leaves? I grew some last year - they blew my head off with the heat.

I have my christmas potatoes, and they are going in today!!!!!!! Thanks for the tip. The guy at our nursery said this is only the second year he has stocked them, so don't know if they are only new to him or new varieties generally, but I am looking forward to giving them a go.

I have Mizuna, picked up at the weekend a long with a few other autumn and winter varieties. Outside in the greenhouse ready to go....

Good luck with the potatoes - what kind did you get? I put some in 3 days ago - could only get Pentland Javelin at my nursery but happy with that. Hopefully they'll be ready by early Nov.

I also have PJ's... they go in in the morning!!! By the time I had prepared the bed today, and sorted out my beans and salad and shallots, I was pooped and hot and covered in bugs so could not face the planting as well!

We will have to confer again in 2/3 months to see how we are getting on..... I hope the family will be toasting doozle come christmas!

Told my FIL who then got all excited and said "they can grown spuds in Greenland you know, when it is sub zero, so yours should be fine". Which is good, ie. spuds are pretty hardy really, but also, if I cock it up, then will look like right spud muppet!!

Yes let's check back here to see how they do. If they turn out well, I suspect all will be eaten before xmas!

Are they hardy though? We had a late frost here in mid-May which reduced my potato plants to a black mush. But I guess if all the tubers are formed underneath the soil already by November, then it won't matter so much what happens to the leaves on top.

Your comment is exactly what the nurseryman said to me - if we get early frosts (ie. October), then do your best to cover adequately and prevent damage to growing foliage, but once you are into November, then it should be exactly as you said - tubers grown, don't worry about the leaves.

We equally got bitten by that late May frost I was gutted as we had covered, but some blew off and I thought that was it, but they survived brilliantly, as they were so advanced in their formation.

And yes, good possibility all gone by the big day! Hey ho, as long as they work, and we get to eat them, then I'll be happy.

All my summer news are up now, dug the remaining few plants up today and dried off and stored - main crop I haven't really tested yet as we had such a glut of news I haven't had to move on to mains. I suspect they must be just about ready...

Well fingers crossed they will be ok. Let's hope for warm autumn eh?

Do you have an allotment?

I've not really touched my maincrops either actually. Dug one maincrop but was covered in scab so not expecting much from the rest.

Planted pak choi, spinach and kale.
Need to find some of hte other oriental greens - one garden centre didn't seem to have any.

Not sure I can face turnips - we planted this summer to entertain DS (who at teh time was into The Enormous Turnip). We now have enormous turnips.

Essie, have you tried Marshalls or Dobies etc for some oriental plug plants? Marshalls do a deal on 48 plants for £9.95.

Having said that, I've got an order in at Rocket Gardens for about 200 plug plants arriving in Sept. They're normally expensive but got 25% off a couple of weeks ago.

Anonymousbird, the potato tips are up!! Can't believe how quickly they grow at this time of year.

Doozle, mine too!!! Sorry for delay, been away, and yeah yeah yeah, they are there.

The bad news is that some little f*cker, ie. my resident mouse and his family have eaten EVERYTHING ELSE that I planted before I went away, and I mean everything. I am so fuming and spitting mad I can't tell you.

But, at least I am looking good for my winter spuds, oh it did lift my spirits after I saw the rest of the damage.

Oh no, disaster! Hate it when that happens.

Hi can I join in, Im planning on buying a couple of small raised beds to plant some winter veg. I would ideally like to plant for Christmas dinner and things to put in stews. I havent got any idea so Im happy to be told that I am deluded.

I will be buying plug plants because I never have any luck with seeds. Will I be able to plant carrots, turnip or sweed, sprouts, broccoli, leeks, cabbage and potatoes.

Will this be possible?

Thanks