September Planting

[Frana]

Hi All,

Haven't been on this site for a while - no offence!

I should probably know the answer to this as I have had my plot for a good while, but can anyone throw some good solid advice at me about what I can plant in September - either direct sowing into ground or to be started off in the greenhouse.

I have loads of seeds of various varieties, and it would be a shame to see them sitting in the shed without being used constructively!

Cheers!

[gojiberry]

You could still take a chance with spinach, chard, turnip, spring cabbage and some round carrots. Onion sets in a few weeks time and you could always have a go at Zazen's onion moon trial starting tomorrow. There is still time to sow winter lettuce and salad leaves. The light levels are starting to drop now so how much of a crop you will get out of the above is a bit of a guessing game. Good luck with anything that you have a go at.

[weekendwellies]

Just looking at that myself Frana. I am going to be planting leek, onion, broad bean, kale, turnip and the ever present lettuce and radish.

[chriscross1966]

Pak Choi, and I just put in a row of overwintering onion seeds and an experimental row of shallot seeds to see if they'd overwinter too ... shallots are pretty hardy and Oxford is hardly the north pole....

[solway cropper]

Up here in the cold, wet north I sowed chard and salad leaves about a fortnight ago and they've both come through. Not sure what sort of a crop I'll get but it's only a few seeds so what the heck!

[Alison]

Chard will certainly be fine, if you're not too sure you can always plant in modules and then plant out in a week or two when they're a bit more slug resistant.

[falkon]

fenugreek , mustard varieties will do great too. Winter Lettuce and winter sowing radishes,

[teamladd]

I have only had my allotment a month, but everyone I speak to or books I read have said different things. I have just put in leeks, onions, radish and carrots. I have plenty of seeds so thought I would just give it a go. I have some broad beans and cabbages I have started at home too.

It exciting just to grow things!

[falkon]

ok this is from the seed selling website..

Spring cabbages, endive, kohl rabi and winter lettuce Valdor. You can also make the last sowing of radish, winter spinach and turnips for tops. If you are in a milder area you can also autumn sow Collards. Under cover you can start calabrese, mini cauliflowers. Fast growing cut-and-come-again salad leaves can be sown during September: Amaranth, Beetroot Bulls Blood, Celery Leaf, Chicory Palla Rosa, Chinese Cabbage Granat, Corn Salad, Endives, Kale Red Russian, Perpetual Spinach, Mibuna, Mizuna, Mitsuba, Namenia, Mustard Leaf, Orach, Pak Choi, Summer Purslane, Rocket, Senposai, Shungiku and Texel Greens – if frosts are likely then use cloches or fleece for protection. If you have a green house or polytunnel you can sow and grow these crops into October and they will be happy unless there are very hard frosts.

[BarleySugar]

I'm hoping for rain so I can sow my mooli radish seeds. I've got kohl rabi seedlings, cabbage and kale to plant out, but we've had so little rain we're in danger of falling down the cracks in the green at the front, so planting seeds or seedlings seems a bit pointless at the moment.

[maytreefrannie]

I've sown winter salad leaves and also stir fry leaves. Well, it's only the price of half a packet of seeds and they just might grow. No sign yet though.

[johninblackpool]

I'm hoping for rain so I can sow my mooli radish seeds.

He LOL .... Rain
You should have been in Blackpool the last 3 Day You can tell the Illuminations start this week we have had everything Gale Force Winds Torrential Rain Flooding .... You name it we've had it

[annacruachan]

Up here in the cold, wet north I sowed chard and salad leaves about a fortnight ago and they've both come through. Not sure what sort of a crop I'll get but it's only a few seeds so what the heck!

Here in the even colder and wetter north I sowed carrots and spring onions a few weeks ago. The carrots germinated and then gradually disappeared and the onions are minute, weedy and shivering. Spinach sown at the same time has not even germinated. Only salad leaves seem to be surviving. Of course, we have had 12 inches of rain in August which may have something to do with it.

[Princess Unicorn]

I have planted radishes (french breakfast) lambs lettuce, spring onions, another lettuce...cant remember the names, garlic, Japanese onions and am taking part in Zazen's onion moon trial!