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  • #1

    Too late to sow the following?

    Turnip (purple top milan)
    beetroot (burpees golden)
    parsnip (tender and true)
    beetroot (boltardy)
    pak choi (red choi F1)
    cauliflower (flora blanca)

    The beetroot and turnip seeds are due for expiration this year anyway.

    Thoughts?
    Last edited by burnie; 20-07-2017, 09:08 PM.
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  • #2
    Where in the world are you, up here in Scotland I'd say too late, are they going in open ground?

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    • #3
      I hope it's not to late for the turnips I ordered some yesterday ! atb Dal

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      • #4
        We had a frost in the Glens not 20 miles from me last week, granted a few hundred feet higher up, but I tend to give things a chance to get settled in before things turn uncomfortable for growing.

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        • #5
          Definitely too late for parsnip. I don't know about cauliflower as I have never successfully grown one, but the others should be ok as long as you are not somewhere with early frosts.
          A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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          • #6
            I've just sown beetroot, pak choi and turnip myself so I'd hope it's not too late! I harvest my beetroot and turnips quite small as I like them better that size, so for me there's still plenty of time
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            • #7
              I work on the basis of - you'll never know if you don't try
              If it doesn't work, its not a failure, just a lesson to not to do it again

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              • #8
                Just updated my profile a bit, I'm further south in London. A lot of the seed packets say sowing is fine for July. I think the cabbage will survive the winter as it says harvest in December.

                I'm going to sow loads more in between rows of cabbage and see what comes up.

                Thanks

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                • #9
                  I'm another for the 'give it a go' school of thought. The text books and packets are based on tried and tested methods that ensure decent chance of success, outside of those parameters success is more sketchy but if the seed is old you have nothing to lose in my opinion.

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                  • #10
                    And if the seed is just going out of date don't worry to much, it should still be fine next year and maybe even the year after.
                    Potty by name Potty by nature.

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                    We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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                    • #11
                      And as Veggichicken said...if you dont give it a try you will never know.

                      And when your back stops aching,
                      And your hands begin to harden.
                      You will find yourself a partner,
                      In the glory of the garden.

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                      • #12
                        If the seed is going to expire I'd do it nothing to lose really. I tend to find it's all down to the weather, if I have space and time I give anything a go. Fairly sure it's too late for parsnip but I planted cauliflower late last year and harvested 'this year.

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                        • #13
                          All my scarlet emperor runner beans have failed to germinate bar one which is weak and sickly and hardly growing up the canes. The early variety (red/white flowers) have just 2 pathetic beans growing as most just keep falling off.

                          Question is, if I buy a new pack of late harvest variety of runner beans, is it too late to sow as I can't not have them, every year they are essential ?
                          Last edited by Marb67; 22-07-2017, 10:46 AM.

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                          • #14
                            Can you find somewhere with RB seedlings for sale? Give you a head start!

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                            • #15
                              I don't know of anywhere. Just can't understand why beans in date should not germinate.

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