advice needed please

**PAULW** · 07-08-2009, 06:59 PM

TINKS
The overwintering onion sets and garlic will be in the shops shortly just get the bed ready for them.

**babyjohnny** · 07-08-2009, 07:02 PM

how about some fennel, carrots, more beetroot? kohl rabi, hardy spring onions (they have a red bulb or white) sweude, turnips, broad beans, leeks,

just go down to your local shop and have a good read though, it'll give you loads of ideas, being as south as you are you will have a much longer season than most of us!!

**vicky** · 07-08-2009, 07:05 PM

Salad crops still have lots of time
Spinach or chard planted now will crop right thought till spring
Broad beans can go in later into the autumn, winter lettuce too

**Two_Sheds** · 07-08-2009, 07:21 PM

You need to plan a bit in advance, and have follow-on crops ready to go in before your plot is empty.
eg. winter veg needs to be started in April/May, and planted on the plot in July ish (this comes with experience, so don't worry too much ... you should still be able to buy plants online or in garden centres)

**tinks** · 07-08-2009, 07:29 PM

thanx guys for ur advice as a newbie in allotments im sure ill learn whats what lol

**tinks** · 09-08-2009, 06:48 AM

morning sorry for being a pain but i have another question

if i bought some seeds that should b sowed by say june will it b ok to buy them and will they grow into whatever?

**rustylady** · 09-08-2009, 06:57 AM

Hard to say without knowing what seeds, but you need to be looking for quick-maturing things at this time of year.

**tinks** · 09-08-2009, 07:16 AM

thanx for ur reply i was looking at cabbages and brussels sprouts

**rustylady** · 09-08-2009, 07:25 AM

Originally posted by tinks View Post

thanx for ur reply i was looking at cabbages and brussels sprouts

Too late for sprouts, but you could sow spring cabbage, and might possibly get results from something like Hispi

**tinks** · 09-08-2009, 04:50 PM

thank u for ur reply

**greenside** · 09-08-2009, 05:56 PM

You can still grow a few things.....red cabbage, swiss chard, perpetual spinach, winter hardy lettuce, radish. Swedes and turnips make a good 'catch crop', with swedes being hardier. Sorry I can't help with suppliers - am in Ireland.

**peanut** · 09-08-2009, 07:33 PM

I've just sown more Spring Cabbages, mines called April.

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