What fruit/Veg is good to plant now?

[JennyPenny23]

I am a bit late getting started but I have finally dug over one of the vegetable patches. I already have some strawberry plants, spinach and a blueberry plant.

I have stacks of seeds, mostly cheap ones from poundland.

Any good recomendations for things to plant this week?

Can you tell I am a newbie to gardening WOuld have been more organised had I not just moved house

Here are a few I like which you can do now:

Beans - sow seeds
Courgettes - sow seeds
Tomatoes ( if you're in the south, wait a few weeks otherwise ) - buy seedlings/small plants
Salad leaves - sow seeds

Blueberries need acid soil so if you don't have acid soil, keep it in a big pot with ericaceous compost in.

Thanks. I have my blueberry plant in a big pot with ericaceous compost

I am in the south too.

I did actually plant some beans and courgettes about 2 weeks ago - nothing seems to have happened so far though?

Courgettes should germinate within a week at the moment, try sowing some more from a different packet, you may have duff seed. Are you sowing direct or in pots under cover? You may get more reliable germination in a pot indoors. Keep in a light bright warm place.

Will sow some more inside - they are poundland seeds - do you think thats why?

It doesn't necessarily follow that cheap seeds don't germinate, but their lifespan does depend on how the place you've bought them from stores them a little. Sometimes you get a whole batch that aren't viable. The more you sow, the more chance you have of at least some germinating and any spares you can always give to friends.

I agree with courgettes I planted seeds about 16 days ago on my kitchen window and their already 4 inches tall.
My early purple sprouting broccoli was planted from seeds and doing really well too.

Salad leaves are good. We keep growing some mustard on the roof of Princess (Fairy) Magic's castle too. It only takes a couple of days which is inside toddler boredom threshold.

My purple sprouting broccoli (inherited from the last tenants) has already grown, overgrown and been fed to guinea pigs . And the land has now been dug over and re-used.

Courgettes are now growing. And so is one of the runner beans and 2 butternut squash. and the tomatoes are tiny, but growing.

Bluberry bushes like be grown in pairs, mulch in pine needles.

IMO don't frustrate yourself with seed at this point. Buy raised plants from markets etc. People often give tomato plants away for free by now. Bury them deep, up to their necks and they will come strong. If you are into salad leaves and can shop at Lidl, buy their mixed growing salad (similar is widely available from other places). Divide it up into the little plants that it is, plant apart so they have room, they grow bigger and you will be rewarded with cut and come again leaves. You pick, they grow again! Very satisfying and taste is great. Better in a shady part of the garden, avoiding full sun.