[domw001]

Not been on here for a while and to be honest, like most people, I have found this year to be a bit depressing when it comes to producing any decent veggies.

It’s not just the weather, but my availability to get to my plot has been severely reduced and I haven’t been able to give it the attention it deserves (imagine 3 beds, each with a 2ft high mound of weeds rotting down)

Anyway.... we all know that this winter the supermarkets are, more than likely, going to ramp their food prices up.  What I want is some suggestions on stuff I could sow NOW that could see food on my table over the winter months.

I sowed some carrots last week. I don’t expect them to get to any real size but I should get something.

I know the days are getting shorter and the temperatures will now start to fall away, but with a week of August left, I want to know if I can salvage something of this year before I think of next season.

Any advice will be appreciated.

[noshed]

Anything with a short growing season is good - salad stuff obviously. Early peas, cabbage like Hispi, turnips

[mumofstig]

Durham Early for cabbages in April and oriental mustards and other greens like mizuna and tatsoi if you like stir-fries 

[sunshineband]

chinese cabbage, spinach, mooli, autumn onions sets, shallots, garlic


and I sowed some carrots yesterday too 

Plenty of kale plants about too 

[compostqueen]

Leeks!  You can eat them pencil sized or leave them to grow on

Spinach - there are various types ready for sowing now
Beetroot     "          " apparently, according to the talk in the allotment shop on Saturday 
White Lisbon onions
Pak Choi
Oriental leaf mix will provide you with stir fry material for ages 
Hardy salad leaf mixture.  I grow a mixture from Seeds of Italy which is very winter hardy

[Madame Cholet]

winter radish, winter purslane rapini.

[Scotch Thistle]

Beetroot     "          " apparently,

Really?
I have loads of seed i could chuck in instead of green manure, but really, is it worth it?

[sunshineband]

Sowed beetroot last year in the fianl week of August and had golf ball sized ones late Autumn 

[Scotch Thistle]

Cool, i'll throw some seeds in tomorrow then