Is it too late to sow some varieties of veg ?

[LooseleafTea]

I know some things can carry on being sown at 2 week intervals I think like corn and spinach but have I left it too late for any?

I was thinking of adding leeks and cabbages and also forgot parsley!

We've just dug the allotment beds over and set some seedlings away on windowsills last week. Nothing actually in the ground yet.

thank you! That’s great to hear.

dwarf french beans planted now will be away in no time ditto peas. There is loads you can still sow now other than tomatoes

Rocket and lettuce can be sown now, they can be harvested as baby leaves.

Sweet peppers need an early start, so you're too late for those Things like tomatoes and aubergines you're pushing it a bit, and I've stopped sowing broad beans, but pretty well everything else is OK.

@cringyminge (never thought I'd ever type that!)

dwarf beans are self supporting & although you can buy a climbing variety but I don't think they are as fine in flavour or texture. I make a little frame out of bamboo canes and tie it together with jute twine. I tie two together in upside down V shape and repeat across the veg bed three times (or however many you want) . I then tie in another cane horizontally across the top of all V's to join & strengthen them and do the same further down two more times so its nice and sturdy.

I have some old wire stuff that used to be the shelves in one of those cheapy plastic covered mini green houses and tie that to the sides for the young peas to grow up - you can use pea netting or just tie lots of string

Here's mine

I’m planning on sowing butternut squash and courgettes in the next week or two.

and you are not a failure..I'm in my fifties and have been gardening for over thirty years with plenty of mistakes and disasters along the way. I'm still learning and still enjoying it

I'm very much a Heath Robinson approach when it comes to my veg garden- nothing looks posh or perfectly done but it doesn't matter as long as it's easy on your eye. I've got straw down in the veg garden in between the raised beds and my teenage dc are mightily embarrassed by it as they think I'm a hick!

If you're using netting please be careful it's not loose on the ground. Hedgehogs get tangled in it and die

For things like lettuce, carrots etc, you will probably find they grow quicker for being a bit later anyway. I am now sowing things like peas and beans, although the blooming pigeons seem to be gobbling up what they can. I did some courgette/ pumpkin seeds on window sill last week and they are already coming up. There seem to be lots of people selling tomato plants on facebook, so if you want things further along, check out the marketplace until garden centres reopen.