What can I plant now?

[knittywittywoo]

I'm new to all this, only started in July and have managed to grow some potatoes which are now nicely roasted and in the freezer. I had cucumbers in the plastic greenhouse until it blew down and I now have a tiny plastic greenhouse with some spring onions and 1 carrot in it.

Is there anything I can plant now. I ideally want to plant in tubs as the ground is just soaking and doesn't seem to be draining at all.

Thanks in advance.

[Rhona]

Well done you! I'm planting winter salad leaves all the way through if I can - outside with cloche type things on. All mine are in pots (you can keep them warmer that way too). And garlic!

[Snadger]

Has to be broadies methinks. I'll be sowing two lots this weekend!

[Alice]

You could grow some salad leaves and pea shoots with some protection - or on the windowsill. You could plant some garlic and shallots in containers.

[Two_Sheds]

Is there anything I can plant now. .

you can get some broad beans in. Aquadulce is a good over-wintering variety, Sutton isn't so good but is dwarf, so less liable to wind damage

[HeyWayne]

you can get some broad beans in. Aquadulce is a good over-wintering variety, Sutton isn't so good but is dwarf, so less liable to wind damage

Most beans cause some wind damage - speshally baked ones.

Anyhoop, I'd go with garlic, onions (if yer quick), and broadies. I've had trouble with peas and mice (sounds like something else I say!), so will leave them until the spring.

Good luck, and well done thus far.

[knittywittywoo]

Thanks very much. I will look into it this weekend.
I have plenty of the small plastic greenhouses that woolies were selling off for �4 so I could put a few tubs in there.
I have my spring onions, pansies and my lonely carrot in one. ( something pulled up all the carrots I planted in the ground, this is the only one I managed to save.) I open it during the day so rain can get in and close it at night for protection against the wind.
If I don't still look interested Hubby won't get me a glass greenhouse next year.

[zazen999]

Just keep posting on here, and show him your post count in the spring and it will show him you're interested.

I'm sowing broadies, peas, leeks and more winter salads & chicory this evening.

[Snadger]

Just keep posting on here, and show him your post count in the spring and it will show him you're interested.

I'm sowing broadies, peas, leeks and more winter salads & chicory this evening.

Like the idea of sowing a batch of leek seeds each month! Just wondered..........do you have many bolters with this method?

[zazen999]

If they bolt, they go into a bed in the border for next year's seeds.

I had a few last year, but they were truly in there for most of the summer and the winter and bolted around march/april time.

My new idea...is to sow a few every month, and to harvest them smaller. - which means you need more but hey ho!

[womble]

I was thinking something like that, my idea was to sow some every(ish) month in a big pot, use some from the pot and transplant some on. I've noticed they grow very well when they are all stuck together.
I sowed some on the 16th October in a pot in the greenhouse and they are coming on nicely.

[zazen999]

They do, they do...they look nice all grown in a pot as well.