[Bigbadfrankie]

so whos planting wot for the winter at the moment :?:

[splodger]

hibernation  

[richyrich7]

Well I'd like to get some onions in, apart from that I'm not bothering to much as I want to get on with the 2nd plot and get some soft fruit etc in.

What you putting in ?

[ACatCalledElvis]

put my winter lettuce in - all gone to seed!

put turnips in - split

put swedes in - eaten by caterpillars

however - chard, leaf beet, kohl rabi, pak choi, cabbages and leeks all look good!

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[mushroom]

purple sprouting broccoli - 4 leaf stage now, planted
japanese overwintering onions - single leaf stage
leeks
strawberry offshoots, planted today
chili seedlings, xplanted to very large plots. These will be kept indoors from november if i don't manage to get the cloche plastic thing up in time.
basils - will be cloched from november
oregano
mint
sage
rosemary
thyme
blackcurrant - planting to permanent location
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sowing seed for: spring cabbage
calabrese (experiment)

[Aunt Sally]

Just starting off some spring cabbages

[Ice]

Luvverly, much underrated curly Kale.  Hoping my perpetual spinach will overwinter as well.

[shaun]

leeks and parsnips are doing great
planted some Christmas drum heads today
sprouts dont look too good
got a tray of spring cabbage to be planted out in a few weeks .some jap onions when i get some.anyone seen any in the garden centres yet ?

[brucesgirl]

Got my spring cabbage and early cauliflowers on the go.
Plus:
Perpetual spinach
Sprouts (millions of them because of an aforementioned error on the part of Dobies)
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Swedes
Leeks
Cut and come again cauliflower
Late Spring onions
Carrots
And waiting for over-wintering onion sets, and will try some cloves of Isle of Wight garlic

No scurvy for me!

[Lynne]

Spring cabbage
Pak choi
Perpetual spinach
fast carrots
Onions
Garlic
Shallots

[Smudgeboy]

Having harvested my modest (but extremely yummy) crop of Desiree spuds, I now have an empty bed at the back of my garden full of nicely conditioned soil.

It's abt 20ft by 2ft and runs east-west, at the base of a wall (which is to the south).

Bearing in mind I have nothing started in the greenhouse etc, what's the best thing to plant directly here - ideally for some winter harvesting, but if I've left that too late, then for next spring.

Ta!

[mushroom]

if it was my patch -

broccoli, purple sprouting - takes nearly a year though. i love broccoli, and the stuff is so expensive in the shops too.

[Smudgeboy]

I had considered that, but my early plantings of White Eye broccoli were decimated by caterpillars - kinda made the whole broccoli thang a bit disheartening.

[mushroom]

I had considered that, but my early plantings of White Eye broccoli were decimated by caterpillars - kinda made the whole broccoli thang a bit disheartening.

possibly a silly question, but did you use (fine) netting?

[Smudgeboy]

Nope - I just left 'em at the mercy, went away for a weekend and come back to leaf skeletons!

My mistake - I'm new to all this and learning (often the hard way) as I go