Is it too late to sow..............?

[veggiechicken]

Personally, I think its rarely too late to sow most things.

Now, in May, could be an ideal time for a lot of the warm weather veg that some of us struggled to sow and grow in January (just because we need to see those little green shoots emerging).
Squashes and beans grow fast when the weather is right - so whack some more in now - I'm going to.

Choose your brassicas and carrots carefully and you could be sowing something every month of the year. Salad crops, like lettucey things, can be picked leaf by leaf, as can kale. If you grow loose leaf veg, rather than waiting for a heart to develop, you gain weeks.

Plants don't always need a full growing season to be edible. In fact, those early pickings of small, sweet veggies can be far more delicious than the ones that hang around for months.

If you think you're too late, trust me, you're not! What you need to do is simple, Don't spend time talking about it, just do it.

[hamsterqueen]

Definitely, I was late last year and didn’t plant my runner beans until July, one of the best crops I’ve had.
I grow most of my salads as loose leaf, transplanting the odd one every now and then to a spare spot in the beds to grow into a lettuce.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[Bren In Pots]

I sow lettuce of some type all year round, that's the only veg I'm self sufficient in.

[Lumpy]

Like you VC I have a veggie mantra that goes ‘ if in doubt shove it in’.
I have no idea where my seeds are collected from - north / south, chalk / clay etc so I just go for it.

[Squingy]

That's reassuring, been so busy lately haven't done any courgettes and my squash mostly died so now going to sow some.

[Gman]

Perhaps I shall plant some more spaghetti squash seeds then, since the last ones appear to have died..

[veggiechicken]

You can be sure you won't have any, if you don't sow them.

[Mr Bones]

The year before last we put our sweetcorn out and it turned cold so we sowed a second batch on June 1st. Both lots cropped, the second overlapping with the first.

[gardening_gal]

I'm glad you posted this VC, I was a 'wonderer' but I'm now going to be a 'shove it in anyway' convert.

I'm sure nature doesn't grow by a calendar so I expect I should be less reliant on one too.

[Gillykat]

I think it's been such a weird spring TBH that the squashes and beans I sowed on Friday will probably grow just as well when (if!) the warmer weather arrives as the stuff I sowed in April and early May

[veggiechicken]

I'm glad you posted this VC, I was a 'wonderer' but I'm now going to be a 'shove it in anyway' convert.

I'm sure nature doesn't grow by a calendar so I expect I should be less reliant on one too.

I grow according to the VC Calendar. Don't ask!
For those who do "understand" it, this is Shoots week and yesterday I planted shallots.

[rary]

I some times think that I should wait till the beginning off May before sowing my seeds, but then I would need to stay in the house and watch TV

[Gillykat]

Watch tv Surely life is not THAT bad? Tv at the moment is TERRIBLE!!! We have Sky and sometimes even then, with hundreds of channels, it's hard to find anything worth watching

[annie8]

You’ve got me thinking. I am not using my beds efficiently all year. Some are empty from late summer til late spring the next year. So for the bed that has garlic which should be ready to harvest by July what could I put in that could be cleared by May?

[Ognen09]

The year before last we put our sweetcorn out and it turned cold so we sowed a second batch on June 1st. Both lots cropped, the second overlapping with the first.

That's good to know I only got around to sowing my sweetcorn yesterday!