What kind of vegetables can I plant now ( end of August)?

[mrsnoah]

Have lots of space but not much knowledge!
Is it too late to grow anything to pull up over the Winter?
We live in Yorkshire.
Thanks.

Perpetual spinach or leaf beet will come up now and carry on over winter if you keep removing leaves I think. Am rubbish at planning my garden, but am just off to an allotment exhibition so will get back to you if I find anything else out.

I too am a novice gardener with loads of space, so will be watching your thread.

I think now is the perfect time to start thinking about what you would like to grow for next year though.

Broad beans, cabbages and garlic are veg that can be planted in autumn and winter for the following year.

If you have loads of space, how about having some permanent beds. I started asparagus this year, but will be a couple of years before I can start really making use of it. Artichokes are another plant that take a while to produce, so if space is a premium, not worth growing. They are both veggies that are expensive to buy and if you can grow them then all the better

thanks jenn..an allotment exhibition- that sounds fantastic. wanted to know if i can grow any sprouts or cabbage. i dont know leaf beet. is it beetroot?

yes. am busy planning the most amazing organic veg garden (but I do every year and not much happens) DH offered to dig this pm so I am frantically planning yippee!
Have my John Seymour self sufficiency book in my hand and am planning to do his 4 yr crop rotation cycle.
(she said optimistically)

I think you can plant turnips now and winter salad stuff.

Will have a look at my calendar thingy later this evening when Im at home and let you know some more.

You might get some spinach now, you might also be able to grow some spring onions too.

There are also some types of carrots that you can plant in autumn but i think this would involve you reasearching a little on a few seed selling websites......

Be back later...

Allotment exhibition was rubbish. Well not that bad, just thought there would be more than veg on show like a competition.

thanks veni, looking into the turnips.
Been to 2 garden centres and no seedlings/plants left at all.
Looks like I will have to grow from seed... scary
Jenn do you have an allottment then?

Nooo. Bigish garden split up into 1/3 raised vegetable beds, the rest patios and shrubs. Still looks crap, but intend to be in house for many years so not too bad.

Would recommend growing veg from seed though. Got all mine recently from Thompson and Morgan, but only because they were the ones that had what I wanted at the time.

Not because they were 50% off?

I got mine from there too

Yep! Planted some of them too. Purple beans are just starting form, and the multi coloured carrots look great.

What do you mean multi coloured carrots ???? Now you are winding me up !! (Arent you ?)

Have just finished digging the 4th new patch. (and cleaned out the Hens -yuk)
Need to explore online/postage options of seeds then.
Any suggestions where ?

mizuna is very easy to grow - can be eaten as a peppery salad green or steamed like spinach. Very hardy and can be grown over winter. Perpetual beet (very like spinach). To be honest, last year I managed to grow lettuce until december, so bung some seed in and see what happens!
I am going to bung some more carrot seed in, as it says plant until mid-july and in Yorks, we can get away with being a bit later. Touching wood, we had very little frost last year. Also, you can plant some new potatoes know, which are ready by december. Also Autumn broad beans.
Marshalls are very good for fool-proof growing seeds I find, not cheap but very reliable.

Yeah you can get purple, pale yellow, yellow and shades of orange. The Dutch basically bred the purple one out of existence because of William of Orange.

And I grow beetroot too close together for the leaves. They are lovely picked young for salad, and equally nice cooked to give you red water and great coloured gravy!

We had the multi coloured carrots too! nad purplepeas and beans and blue sweetcorn (only one of those grew completely though)
I just like to be different!

yellow cougettes too

We have those too!

wow this is amazing!!
Fullmoonfiend I will certainly try those you suggested. Thats fantastic.
What type of new potatoes are they, can you remember?
Where I live the soil is very clay but also vgood. If I wanted to grow carrots would I have to dig in some sand or something to break it up?

Imagine if the soil is very baked it wouldn't do any harm to break it up with sand or compost, but carrots don't like recently manured soil. Would put them on soil after another crop has finished.