In Limbo

[dennyjim]

What can I grow now? I feel like I have nothing to do.
Suggestions welcome
P.S. I have an allotment with a greenhouse, but no electricity

[bario1]

You have an allotment but you have nothing to do??
This isn't a great time of year for growing, but you could plant Autumn onion sets, garlic, or start off some overwintering broad beans?
Personally I use this time of year to do 'structural' jobs on the plot, stuff that you don't have time to do when you're actually tending to plants.

[Jimmy]

Lots of tidying and planning.
Planning is good and can best be done in the pub.
Many problems can be solved in the pub, but the trick is remembering the solutions in the morning.
Jimmy

[dennyjim]

Thanks Bario1 I've a load of boxes to make for my intended 15" wide perimeter, but dont want to start that before Christmas. I just feel I want to plant "stuff" lol

[dennyjim]

Sounds like a plan Jimmy :-)

[Jay-ell]

Well, I'm growing bored and impatient like I do this time every year

[veggiechicken]

^^^ Bored beans?

Its a good time to plant fruit bushes and trees or green manure or just sow anything that takes your fancy just for the fun of it. Guess what I do?

[dennyjim]

Should I really ask ??? :-)

[4Shoes]

Lots of tidying and planning.
Planning is good and can best be done in the pub.
Many problems can be solved in the pub, but the trick is remembering the solutions in the morning.
Jimmy

Just the sort of thing that would force you to take up smoking (so you can write notes on back of packet). I've got a wee Black "Police type" note book (not that they use then anymore) with the elastic bank to mark the page

[bramble]

What do you have in your greenhouse.
Can you take cuttings and pot them up.
Plant some miniature daffs in containers and keep in the greenhouse for a bit of early colour.
If you have strawberries it's not too late to root some runners.
Sow overwintering salad crops in the greenhouse.
Failing that, clean the glass, gutters, pots and containers for next season.

[Penellype]

Sow oriental leaves, winter lettuce, microgreens, pea shoots, broad beans. Sprout some alfalfa or mung beans in a jar.

Plan what you are going to grow next year

[Snadger]

Here is the Moreveg October sowing guide.



Baby Leaf Astra, Catalogna Cerbiatta, Deronda, Red Wizard, Sangria and 2 mixes
Beetroot Detroit Globe, Early Wonder & Lutz
Broad Beans to overwinter – Aquadulce Claudia & Sutton Dwarf
Cabbage - Evergreen
Cauliflower - All Year Round, Atakaya F1 & Snowball
Chicory – Grumola Verde & Pain de Su
Choy Sum – Purple Choi
Collards
Corn Salad
Cress
Endive Catalogna Garnet Stem, Cornet de Bordeaux, Panaclieri & Soldata
Flowers – Foxglove, Honesty, Limnanthes, Malva, Stocks, & Sweet Peas
Green Manure - Comfrey
Herbs – British Basil, Caraway, Coriander (indoors), Lavender, Marsh Mallow, Sweet Cicely & Wild Garlic
Kale – Scarlet
Lettuce Black Seeded Simpson, Marvel of Four Seasons, Red Grenoble, Rouge de Hiver, Rougette de Montpellier, Roxy, Sylvesta, Trocadero, Waldmans Dark Green & Winter Density
Mibuna, Minutina, Mitsuba & Mizuna
Mustard Leaves
Orach
Pak Choi Red Lady & Yuushou
Parsley
Purslane
Pea Avola, Douce Provence & Twinkle (to overwinter)
Radish Daikon, Malaga Violet and Tarzan
Rocket (lots of choices)
Shungiku
Spinach – Banjo, Giant Winter, Harp, Matador, Medania, Reflect, Renegade & Trombone
Spring Onion Eiffel, White Lisbon & White Lisbon Winter Hardy
Strawberries
Texel Greens
Turnips for greens and tops – Goldana, Market Express & Snowball


Quite impressive innit!

[KevinM67]

This weekend I'm going to sow a whole load of flower seeds (mainly biennials) that I've been collecting from the gardening mags during the last few months.

Foxglove, Lupins, Honesty, Wallflowers, Sweet Peas, Sweet William, etc.
I'm not sure if I'm too late to be sowing them but, you got to give it a bash anyway.

I'll be keeping them in the (unheated) front porch and hopefully get them out next spring.

[burnie]

I don't have a lottie, but in my garden I tend to grow little in the winter and instead use the time to get the ground ready for next years crops. I don't sow until after the 26th of December when the propagator comes into season with onions and leeks, then chillies and finally tomatoes. I also need a bit of re charging, so do some winter hill walking in the snow and night time Cod fishing in the easterly storms from my local rocks.

[Babru]

[QUOTE=KevinM67;1624630]This weekend I'm going to sow a whole load of flower seeds (mainly biennials) that I've been collecting from the gardening mags during the last few months.

Foxglove, Lupins, Honesty, Wallflowers, Sweet Peas, Sweet William, etc.
I'm not sure if I'm too late to be sowing them but, you got to give it a bash anyway.

Monty Don was just sowing his sweet peas this week, so it looks like the right time. Made me think about doing the same.