sowing late veggies

[freshstart]

Hello fellow grow-your-owners

Having moved house just when I would normally have started sprouting all my veggies, I have been left without many veggies for this season

I've inherited a rampant rhubarb and some raspberry canes from the previous occupiers which is novel for me, and I have already planted up loads of salad and herbs and bought in some tomato plants, but this is minimal compared to my usual selection by now..sob sob

Anyone got any experience of sowing seed this late, and if so how much later should I expect to harvest crops?

Hoping it isn't too late to have to invest in seedlings from the garden centre, but ill do if need be

Look forward to you comments

Freshstart

[newbietogardening]

I don't think its too late to start runner beans off

[TEB]

Hi Freshstart and welcome to the vine,
some will depend on where you are in the country but off the top of my head, courgettes, carrrots, leeks, cabbage, kohl rabi, cauliflowers, beans etc

[Snadger]

I have just sown about half a packet each of eight different types of summer and winter brassica's including kales,brocollis and cabbage in 8" pots for planting up as other crops finish!
There are loads of other veggies that can still be sown (to many to list!)


Just decide what you want to grow, have a look at the last sowing date on the packet ( Although seeds that are supposed to be sown by the end of May can usually still be sown now!)...and go for it!!

[muckdiva]

Cripes, how did it suddenly become so late - I'm still fighting my way through the undergrowth on the lottie I took on in April

Looks like the Parsnips will not get sown this year after all

[Cutecumber]

There's lots you can still sow, don't panic (well, unless you can't get the seeds, I guess!).

I have lots still to do, myself...

Tomorrow, for example, I am sowing some carrot, beetroot and lettuce for harvesting in about 12 weeks or so (fingers crossed!). Just a few of each - I am very small-scale.

At the weekend I shall sow some calabrese, hoping it will grow quickly and I can have it at the end of September, and hopefully some other brassicas - just a couple each of maybe three winter and spring varieties. I may not have the room to keep them in the end, but if I don't sow the seed now, I've got no chance. You've got to be in it to win it!

I might try another lot of fennell, too - my first failed to germinate.

Some climbing french beans will then be started as I would like them to climb up around my sweetcorn. If a pot becomes spare, I'll also do some dwarf ones, perhaps.

Then it will be oriental brassicas (for growing to maturity rather than salad leaves). They should do well grown towards the end of the season as they hate the heat when they are approaching harvest.

I have two seed potatoes put aside and I shall pop them in a pot in August.

Remember that although many books and seed packets give you certain instructions, it is always worth chancing your arm. Seed is usually not expensive enough to prohibit taking a risk by sowing later than recommended. You may not get the biggest crop ever, or the longest harvest, but you never know until you try.

[Flummery]

Lots of people put in second (or more) sowing of things for succession - there's a bit of leeway on planting and sowing times I reckon. They have to generalise on the packets but just up and down Britain we can see how different our growing conditions are.

Pick stuff you really like and have a go!

Welcome to the vine by the way. A nice bunch of grapes here!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi FS and welcome to the Vine! I would say, give it a go, lots of seeds can be sown all through the summer. Good luck - let us know how you get on - with photos if poss! Bernie

[moggssue]

Hi FS, and a warm welcome from a fellow newby! I've just sown courgette and french beans to replace the first lot eaten by nasty slimy things, and a second lot of carrot, lettuce and spinach to replace those soon to be eaten, plus a couple of 'mini' cabbage and cauli for later in the year, all with no idea whether they'll grow later and with fingers very much crossed. I reckon if you dont try you'll never know, so go on, give it a try!

[freshstart]

Thanks for the warm welcome everybody, appreciate the encouragement to try regardless, come what may.

Off to locate my seed collection and rummage for things to sow...will keep you all posted as to how things turn out

Cheers

Freshstart

[shirlthegirl43]

Hello and welcome to the vine freshstart.

Good luck with your growing. I planted carrots at the end of July last year and we enjoyed them with Christmas dinner. They were in a bucket in a sheltered spot near the house so no frost risk. Anything is worth a shot - after all the seeds are quite cheap.