what veg can be planted now from seed?

1jim

Hi
Have some gaps in my borders now where we have just pulled the beetrood from, can any suggest something that will grow from seed if planted now? ideally to be ready later in the year/over winter?
many thanks
Jim

nodwah

I feel sorry that no-ones answered you yet!

When I get myself sorted I will be planting/sewing seeds for chinese leaves in my potato patch for the winter. Thing like pak choi and tatsoi, I think they just need a bit of cover in the worst weather and you can be picking leaves all winter (it says here).

Another idea for inside , I heard Bob Flowerdew say once was if you let a side shoot grow on your tomatoes then pick it off and root it in a pot it could be fruiting well into November. Worth a try? I might as my toms have been dismal this year, haven't eaten a single one yet.

Lord_Gardener

You could always pop in some quick maturing salad crops - Lettuce, Rocket, etc. or put in some spring cabbage, turnips and overwintering onions (seeds).

absfabs

Potato bed empty now, is it too late to sow beetroot or carrots now?
It says up to July on packet, will I get a chance a month late?

Have also put in some salad and radish seeds.

Interesting thought re tomatoes, nodwah, I always have lots of "wild" ones sprouting up in the garden (from home made compost), might try pot one up instead of just weeding ....

Calephetos

I've bought (hopefully...still not turned up) a load of oriental lettuce seeds and some spring cabbage and Japanese onions for overwintering. Having not done this gardening thing before, I'm a bit hopeless, but plant to throw them in along with my winter potatoes this week. I wanted to put in carrots too, but completely forgot to buy any more!

Abs - we may well get another Indian summer, so go for it. Nothing to lose really. You'll probably get baby carrots at least!

kippers

You can sow cabbages for over wintering if you are quick, perpetual spinach, winter lettuce (they are nice, you harvest them march april before normal lettuce is ready), spring onions for transplanting later (for eating next year) and parsley for winter cropping.

I don't put my Japenese onions or broad beans in until mid Oct at the earliest (i am in the midlands).

V_Chic_Chick

It's not too late for christmas potatoes if you get going now.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=514224

louise_1981

I started red and white beetroots spring cabbages and two sorts of turnips on friday. after the weather this year I am expecting an indian summer,which will not be too good for the brassicas

1jim

Thanks guys, am pretty new to this, earlier this year we had the garden "done", we created raised flower borders all the way round with a lawn in the middle, these raised beds have now become our vegetable patch and have been pretty productive so far with peas/greenbeans/dwarf french beans/lettuce/rocket/beetroot/curly kale, tomatos still coming on (picked first one today), have turnip, carrots, garlic,sweetcorn and cabbage in ground at the moment, as well as the above still cropping
Have just planted some more peas/dwarf greenbeans to fill in some gaps, will put your suggestions to use though and undoubtedly will be around here a lot to ask more silly questions
one other things is that I have been quite please how "nice" the borders have looked with the veg growing this year...somehow didnt expect it to look so nice
thanks again guys
Jim

absfabs

Your garden sounds great, 1jim!

And all that in the first year, I'm well impressed. How about posting a picture?

~Chameleon~

nodwah wrote: »

Another idea for inside , I heard Bob Flowerdew say once was if you let a side shoot grow on your tomatoes then pick it off and root it in a pot it could be fruiting well into November. Worth a try?

I can tell you that this does actually work, although I found out quite by accident, it certainly wasn't planned!

I found a tomato plant growing amongst a patch of weeds and it must have originated from a side shoot that I'd nipped out of one of my main plants and just tossed carelessly onto the waste bit of ground! I first noticed it a few weeks ago so have let it be and it's now got some tiny fruit coming on it