Can I still catch up ....

[moggssue]

Well, I had it all planned - lots of big envelopes dated for early/late every month of the year filled with the appropriate seed packets just bursting to go. I'm now about to start on the early April envelope but haven't done anything with the early or late March ones, mostly due to the cold wet weather.

If I sow some of the seeds that were specific to an early or long time maturing crop, do you think they will still catch up okay, or should I just move on to what I'd planned for April?

Sorry if this is a repeat of other questions by the way, I cant find the answer by searching and hope I'm not being a nusiance asking!!

[carlseawolf]

Lots of people on here have started to plant out already but there are afew up north who have not even opened seed packets yet so i would not worry about it and get them in when you can.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Bung 'em in - they'll catch up. Also, if you just 'move on' you will find yourself like me last year with a 'gap' (i.e. I missed sowing PSB and sprouts).

The worst that will happen is that you'll get a HUGE GLUT, but cross that bridge when you come to it!

[moggssue]

Hmm, okay, think I'll risk a few of the 'early' seeds under the coldframe then. As has been said before I guess they have two chances!

I've read a few posts around that peeps have lots going on in greenhouses and the like, I havent even got that far yet ... I always intended the main crops of carrots, leeks, all the usual suspects, to go in from mid April onwards but had thought I could grab a few early crops of cauli, leek and the like but it seems not - long as i know its not me!!

[jacob marley]

Do not beat your selfe up over the late time nature has a way of catching up jacob

[kirsty b]

I've found that too. Did toms really early last year and the did no better than those I started a couple of months later and cropped no earlier either. I've waited a bit longer to sow because of my very wet clay soil.

[moggssue]

Well, like a lot of you out there I suspect, I started sowing for real at the weekend - cauli, cabbage, beans and peas mostly and all in the cold frame for the time being. Also sowing lots of wishes and requests for some decent weather fr the summer!!