What will you be sowing and planting in November?

[Nikki Arnold]

Share your tips for what to sow and grow in November and you could be in with a chance of winning a prize!

Our favourite posts from this thread will be printed in the November issue of GYO magazine and the winning grapes will each be awarded a £10 Thomson & Morgan voucher.

(please not tips must be posted before midnight on the 7th September 2012 to be considered and may be edited for the magazine).

Looking forward to reading your posts!

Best wishes from
Nikki & the GYO team

[shona_b]

November is the new Spring! Time for planting out garlic and japanese onions as well as broad beans to try to beat the spring black fly. Last year I also tried over wintering some peas but the weather was so mild they all germinated and we had an unexpected crop of pea shoots!

[Florence Fennel]

Red, white and brown onions, garlic and shallots and broad beans (a change for me this year to Bunyard Exhibition, free with GYO a couple of months ago). I aim to sow some sweet peas during November too and overwinter them in my little stayput lean-to greenhouse. (The blow aways blew away).

[adamhartree]

Nothing is more satisfying than going the allotment on a crisp November morning and hearing all the little birds singing whilst planting garlic and onions aswell as a fruit tree or two. Standing around that bonfire and thinking what you will be harvesting 6-9months down the line.ahhhh bliss :-)

[zazen999]

November is the one month that I sow or plant pretty much nothing. Maybe sweet peas, peas for shoots, but that's it. It's a month for tidying up the greenhouse mainly.

All my overwintering stuff goes in mid Sept. The leeks are already in. Green manures will have already been sown so at a push I might sow patches of those if any need sowing.

[kathycam]

Last year I only did a few broad beans, but they were so good, I'll sow maybe 3 times as much. I'm hoping to fill in all the gaps in my plots with broad beans, leeks and winter lettuce. I'll maybe try some peas as well. I can't stand empty soil. I'm hoping to do a border around each bed with onions, garlics and shallots, to try and keep out the slugs and snails. If you get stuff in in october/november you can close the hungry gap.

[Samurailord]

I'll be banging in some Garlic and Japanese Onions, probably a few Pak Choi and other oriental leaves, and perhaps a few broad beans to over winter.

I might even get the chance to plant a few currant bush cuttings if I can manage to get the top half of my plot drained enough.

Andy

[Feral007]

Everything!

[Peppermint]

My Japanese onions didn't make it through the winter last year but my garlic did, so I'll definitely be sowing garlic again this year. We'll be putting twice as much in, though I must remember to put the hardneck and softneck varieties in different beds as I can't tell the difference when I come to harvest them. I'll try the onions again but I'm going to sow them on ridges as recommended on the Grow Your Own forum. I'm hoping this means that they won't be waterlogged like last year.

Our big planting will be willow cuttings to help form wind breaks round the vegetable beds. We put in 200 last year and they are now doing well. It will probably be two hundred again this year.

[Rhona]

November is out for sowing and growing for us too. Overwintering onions and garlic will definately be in by October. Some varieties of broad bean (Aguadulce), and some leaves maybe. November will be the month to spread a ton of manure over everything that needs it and a bit of a tidy up.

[susieq100]

November is a bit too late for me too. I like to have over-wintering onions and garlic in by October half term. Both of these did really well for me this year, despite the weird weather! I won't bother with over-wintered broad beans again, the ones I started in modules in the gh in spring were far more productive. I will try some sweet peas though.

[Paulottie]

November means garlic planting time here but I also wait till November to sow my Aquadulce Claudia broad beans. An old allotment hand pointed out that to sow earlier means that the plants are too tall and get blackleg rocking around in the winter winds. Nonetheless I sow a few spare at the end of the rows or in the cold frame to replace any losses.

[VirginVegGrower]

November will have seen me already plant my garlic, overwintering onion sets and broad beans. For me November will be a steaming mug of coffee and quiet misty weather contemplation of how to improve the soil and tidy up the polytunnel and greenhouse. Muck and mulch time comes with this month.

[FijiBob]

I'm going to try overwintering Broad beans for the first year. If I can find some space I'll also stick some garlic in.

[j r hilton]

Onions, Garlic , Sweet peas, I have found not much is gained by over wintering broad beans which I start off in paper pots in a cold green house early in the new year. I dont have to start again because the ones growing over winter have succumed to bad weather etc like I have in prvious years.