Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Irene on May 26, 2010, 16:48
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I'm going to have two extra rows in my garden plot, each about 20 feet long.
I already have the "regular crops" planted (peas, potatoes, brassicas, turnips, etc., etc.).
Any ideas what I can plant in these two rows. I can split them half/half easily. The only limitation is that I'm trying to grow everything in the garden from my own seed, no outside starts.
Am I too late to get real creative?
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More peas - Simples!
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Course not.
Salad leaves, beans and squashes (courgettes, summer squash, winter squash etc.) Not too late for any of those from seed. Could do some very fancy salad-type leaf patterns.
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DD:
You sound like my hubby and potatoes :)
Actually, my pea seed failed so I just replanted two rows and am keeping my fingers crossed.
I agree, there is NO comparison to peas fresh off the vine.
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Stripy leaved beetroot, inter-patterned with Little Gem lettuces and Marigolds (to attract hoverflies, which eat aphids).
Comfrey station?
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Green owl, is it too late for Romaine?
My hubby and I really enjoy Ceasar Salad. Does it do okay here?
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chard good for summer salads and winter greens, non climbing barlotti beans lovely fresh or dried in soups, have you already sown swede?, sugar snap peas, ridge cucumbers or gherkins for pickles, squash/pumpkin they don't all spread like mad......can't think of anything else
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Sorry Irene, I don't like Romaine so I don't know but I just checked the T&M site. Sow outside March-August. Keep well-watered. Also says they stand the heat well so sounds ideal (if you like Romaine!)
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Green Owl:
How kind of you :)
Romaine will be attempted in at least half of one row.
Thank you to everyone for your suggestions. I put in some "Little Gem" yesterday and am going to have to look at Chard and a few of the others.