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I have cleared my courgette bed today, shredded all the growth and mixed it with some seaweed and covered the bed with it, I would like to try growing something else in it now what would you recommend I try
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it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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Do you need the bed to be free by any particular time next year ? -
Are you looking to buy plugs or sow from seed?
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Garlic and Japanese onions are available now.
Hardy peas and broad beans could go in although we're waiting a few weeks yet.Comment
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I think it would need to be plugs now sowing seeds would be a bit late, and I would like it cleared by June next year, though not a must, but don't think I would do the onions though garlic is a possibilityit may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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Corn salad can be sown now.
I've just sown (yesterday) cauliflower Snowball and winter lettuce (Rouge d'Hiver). You could also sow spinach, which I did a couple of weeks ago. Apart from the corn salad, I start these off in modules indoors to get them germinated and plant out when they have about 4 true leaves, but I am planning to protect them with cloches over winter.
I went to Wyevale the other day and they had quite a few veg plants in modules.Last edited by Penellype; 22-09-2018, 06:53 PM.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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Sow broad beans in November.
If they aren't ready by the time you need the bed next year just dig em in as green manure.
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Another option is Douce Provence peas with spinach and/or a hardly lettuce in front. Sow the peas a bit later.
Where you are, the peas might need protection in the worst of the weather, though they are amazingly hardy. I've had them grow successfully to harvest despite hard frosts, though I did cover them with plastic over a frame prior to snow to stop them getting weighed down. They're not hugely productive (don't grow very tall), but very welcome. And I just love freshly picked lettuce come late winter early spring. Winter Gem or some other type that you like that will do well. I've seen Valdor highly recommended.Comment
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