October - what to plant?

[buzzingtalk]

Overwintering peas and broad beans. Also putting in raspberry canes and planting strawberries out.

yum yum, rasberry canes! I wish I had a proper garden to plant loads of berries in

Gonna check out overwintering peas and beans, thanks

[Jono]

I planted my over wintering onions and garlic at the weekend, as well as some winter lettuce in a containter. Also put some spring cabbage seedlings in the ground, and have a few left which I'm going to try in pots this winter.

This is a good leaflet on winter lettuce: http://www.onepotpledge.org/pdfs/Winter-salads.pdf

[lettuceleaf10]

How about perpetual spinach . Chard looks beautiful in pots . Also lots of herbs look good in containers .

[stella]

I have growing in pots outside, garlic, shallots, corn salad, rocket, Lettuce leaves, and a few different herbs all will do well for quite a few weeks yet.

[crazii_c]

ive started my garlic and onion sets in modules for the time being, ready to be planted into my containers this weekend once i pull up my toms. i chose early wight garlic as it says it matures from May, which is when i plant out my toms. im not expecting the onions to have time to fully mature but i can still use them as i need them straight from the garden. ive also got sring cabbages in my pots.
you can still grow plenty of fruit if you just have containers. ive currently got strawberrys, blueberrys and ive just bought a gooseberry plant.

[Strawberry delight]

SOW
Rocket
Mibuna
Mizuna
Early peas
Winter lettuce
PLANT
Spring cabbages
Winter lettuces
Rhubarb
Onion sets (early in the month)
Garlic (early in the month)
Broad beans
HARVEST
Parsnips
Carrots
Beetroot
Chard
Lettuce
Radish
Salsify
Scorzonera
Potatoes
Spinach
Swedes
Late apples
Pears
Autumn raspberries
Perpetual strawberries
Celery
Celeriac
Cauliflowers
Winter cabbage
Oriental cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Broccoli
Sweetcorn (early in month)
Tomatoes (early in the month)
Turnips

[Two_Sheds]

I've been looking at Radar onion sets, but I'm thinking I don't really have enough room.

If space is precious, don't grow crops which are cheap in the shops, like onions. Grow something more exotic, like um, fruit or new spuds (March).

[buzzingtalk]

Space is VERY precious! I really don't have an awful lot of room! Although I have had a surprisingly big haul this year of stuff In a tiny little bit of concrete full of pots, I grow/grew this year:

4 types of tomatos (4 big pots - gone now though)
3 types of strawberries (12 small pots)
1 rhubarb
Lettece and rocket in summer
6 blueberry plants (on the way)
Sweet pepper (the only plant that failed, as it fell in some wind while i was at work and died)
3 types of chilli - scotch bonnet, jalapeno, cayenne x2)
Chives
Parsley
Oregano
Basil
Coriander
Eccinacea
Sage
Rosmary
Bay
Lemongrass
Garlic

Mainly a glorified herb garden tbh, with added toms and soft fruit. You wouldn't believe you could grow so much if you saw the space, at the peak of summer it was like an alladins cave, people used to call it the 'urban jungle'. I didn't think I'd get away with it but everything was tasty and grew really well considering there is not much sunlight at all and not much space. but its wedged inbetween a wall and my house so nice and warm I guess

Next year, I'm gonna have MORE stuff, I love it, its like a massive game of tetris and adds some colour to the bleak city centre. Gonna have:

all my herbs still!
cherry tomatos (in hanging baskets if i can find good enough brackets to hang over a wall)
2 beefsteak tomato plants (bloody tasty and had a good yield this year)
6 blueberry plants (they will be small and not much fruit on them)
some beans made for pot growing (might try some of them in baskets too as an experiment)
4 chilli plants

gonna germinate loads of slow growing stuff in the hope that I'll have an allotment in a few years...

[buzzingtalk]

How about perpetual spinach . Chard looks beautiful in pots . Also lots of herbs look good in containers .

oooh i love chard! mmmmmm. I have swiss chard 'bright lights' but it says to sow before August - so much too late! Are there winter varieties though?

[lettuceleaf10]

oooh i love chard! mmmmmm. I have swiss chard 'bright lights' but it says to sow before August - so much too late! Are there winter varieties though?

You can still buy plants in some garden centres . I think they are quite tough and would soon catch up with a bit of protection. I usually put a fleece cloche over mine when really cold weather is forcast .

[nomis]

Ive got 4 square meters of polly house spare, and about 12 square meters of ourdoor plot soil going space....really need to get my act together before it gets too cold and dark.

[buzzingtalk]

[ Fill a 13 cm / 5cm pot ]

What does that mean? I found it on a website about planting garlic in containers, and I've no idea what it means. Does it mean a pot between 5-13 cm?

[Suky]

13cm = 5" A typo methinks.

[Davyburns]

A random thought, others might know better, but what about winter lettuce in pots??
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I have some really large pots that I layered flower bulbs in for spring and summer, then I thought "that seems a waste over the winter" so I put half a dozen lettuce in each one, and there doing really well

[Madasafish]

Black locust trees.
Impatiens glandulifera