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  • Successional Sowing.

    Probably a silly question, but do you successionally sow everything?

    Most of the seed packets give 2 or 3 sowing months, so logic tells me that I should be sowing every couple of weeks to give me a longer crop, but as I'm new to all this I wanted to make sure I'm not wasting my time

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  • #2
    You use succession sowing for things that you don't want to eat all at once or for veg that you cannot store long term - e.g lettuce. You wouldn't want to eat a couple of dozen lettuce within a couple of weeks - unless you were a rabbit, of course!

    I use succession sowing mainly for salad crops - lettuce, spring onions, radishes, etc. For the first time I have sown two lots of beetroot but as I always pickle these the two crops will just spread out the cooking and preserving chore.

    You can plant other crops like, for example, potatoes at different intervals. So first earlies, second earlies, and maincrop would be planted a few weeks apart to give you a continuing harvest during the season. And of course there are crops that you would not plant in succession. Best example I can think of is sweetcorn which you need to plant in a block to ensure good pollination. You will also find different varieties of the same fruit or veg with different cropping times so you can use these to give continuity of supply - e.g. strawberries.

    Sorry if this sounds a bit confusing but hope the above helps.
    Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

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    • #3
      Gwyndy gave such a good answer I have nothing to add.... except to say that I succession sow salad and peas, but not much else.

      I do a bit of succession picking - sow a whole line of spring onions/beetroot/carrot, say, and then pick every other one for eating, leaving the rest to grow bigger.
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        I usually successional sow the vegetables I like to eat for most of the year! Mainly leeks and all types of brassicas.
        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

        Diversify & prosper


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        • #5
          Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
          Gwyndy gave such a good answer
          Thank you kind sir!! Hope the bruises are healing.
          Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Gwyndy View Post
            Thank you kind sir!! Hope the bruises are healing.
            Or in TS's case Sir-ess!
            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

            Diversify & prosper


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            • #7
              Originally posted by Gwyndy View Post
              Thank you kind sir!! Hope the bruises are healing.
              Easy mistake to make. One child at school looked me up and down and said "are you a boy or a girl?"

              I started growing my hair after that
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Gwyndy View Post
                Thank you kind sir!! Hope the bruises are healing.
                If you look at her profile photos, T_S is quite a dish and very much a lady [I hope you don't mind T_S]...

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                • #9
                  Ooooooops - mia culpa!! In my defence m'lud - ooops, m'lady, I plead insanity / old age / ingrowing toenails / onion white rot. And anyway, who but a male of the species would have two sheds???? I rest my case and throw myself on the mercy of the court. If the above does not impress - sorry, I must just be a miserable pleader!! (I am now going to the allotment to beat myself with nettles.)
                  Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Gwyndy View Post
                    Ooooooops - mia culpa!! In my defence m'lud - ooops, m'lady, I plead insanity / old age / ingrowing toenails / onion white rot. And anyway, who but a male of the species would have two sheds???? I rest my case and throw myself on the mercy of the court. If the above does not impress - sorry, I must just be a miserable pleader!! (I am now going to the allotment to beat myself with nettles.)
                    Well, if you've got rheumatism in your old age, the nettles will help with that!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                      If you look at her profile photos, T_S is quite a dish and very much a lady [I hope you don't mind T_S]...
                      Hurrummppphhhheeeddd.
                      Bob Leponge
                      Life's disappointments are so much harder to take if you don't know any swear words.

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