The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: Dans on September 28, 2014, 08:47:50 pm
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Hi All,
Is there anything at all I can plant out at this time of year? My beds are looking really bare and empty and I'm wondering if anything can go in to over winter? Have I missed it all?
Currently have tommies still ripening, and lots of courgettes still coming lol.
I'm just south of Midlothian.
Dans
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You can put in Japanese onions which ripen mid year next year.
You could plant spring cabbages, and kales for an early picking next year.
Garlic - traditionally plant it on the shortest day and lift on the longest (I think I have that right).
You could also plant broad beans in pots - plant out in the spring and you'll get an earlier crop next year.
I know a grower who also sows spring onions and over winters them.
Under cloches you could also sow winter salads, spinach.
If your not planting anything to eat - plant a green manure to retain what goodness is there and also to add some green material back into the soil. Don't leave the beds empty.
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Last months home farmer mag. had a ' postage payment only ' package of seeds for winter.
In them are onions, lettuce ( all year round), beans, peas, cabbage. Cannot remember what else I got.
Kale, onions and garlic can all be planted in the next month or so.
I have sprouts, leek and sprouting broccoli occupying some areas too.
At least there are less problems with pests for these plantings ;D unlike the caterpillars or aphids of this summer :rant: