What can I plant now in new beds that will provide food this year?

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We have just redone our kitchen garden space and I have four large beds to fill. What would you put in at this time of year?

Cut and come again salad leaves, direct sow maincrop turnips for autumn harvesting, carrots and some oriental vegetables too :)

Herbs e.g. basil/coriander

As above, most root crops, you could try some french beans as well if it's a sunny place.

Kale and p. s. broccoli for the winter (prob a bit late). Potatoes and other root crops. Broad beans. Salads. Spinach. Radishes. Spring onions. Spring cabbage.
herbs.

I’ve just been out and planted some perpetual spinach and some PS broccoli that I had in my seed tin so that’s a start!

There’s a whole lot of “oriental vegetables” that like to be sown after the solstice else they bolt

Although you have perennial spinach I’d put some chard in too

Swiss chard, pak choi, oriental mix salad, rocket (you only need to sow it once!)
Year round lettuce.

I wouldn't sow lamb's lettuce as it does not have much flavour and it tends to self seed.

I think I have rocket seeds in the shed. I’ll go and hunt them out when it stops raining. I didn’t realise I could still plant carrots (although my previous carrot efforts have hardly been worth the time it took to sow the seed!)

me neither. Home grown carrots are delicious but carrot fly got there first.