Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: fisher on May 04, 2011, 18:26
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Ive just discovered that the school fair in on June 18th. This is earlier than past years, when we've dug up spuds fresh to sell. Might be a bit early for them this year??
Please does anyone have suggestions for what i can grow well to look good in 6 weeks??
Thanks :)
Fisher
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How long do beetroot and radish take? Possibly a small lettuce (loose leaf)?
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Depends when you planted them, because with all the warm weather everything is a lot earlier this year. I intend to be digging my earlies by then that were planted in February and our part of the country missed the frost last night.
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I think radish is the fastest veg. Lettuce and baby spinach leaves may be possible. If you have plenty of mint you could plant cuttings direct into pots and they should be ready in 4-6 weeks or so I read recently.
There's always cress!
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What about some sunflower plants?
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Plant toms, Moneymaker, then sell on as patio pot plants to grow on, they should be ready in time.
Also 3" pots of cut and come again lettuce, strawberry runners in pots (the ones you missed digging up last autum) ;) they may even be fruiting.
And as previousely said, radish.
Don't you have any perenial herbs that you can sell in bunches?
Other than that, get yourself to the supermarket and buy some spuds to sell for an enormouse proffit :ohmy: ;) :nowink:
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Bunches of Rhubarb if like me you have lots
Cut herbs if you have a big sage, rosemary or mint plant on your plot
Anything you have sown too much of - pot it on and sell like to be continued.
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Ooh, rhubarb, good idea.
Expensive in the shops too yet abundant on most plots.
Have you thought about asking others on your site if they have any left over plants that they would like to donate to a good cause?
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Thanks all for some good ideas!
The spuds went in on April 1st (honest!) so will they be ready i wonder?