Sowing PSB..?

[w33blegurl]

Am I too late for sowing some purple sprouting? The pack I have says until mid June....do you think the seeds know it's July yet??? I guess the answer is just to give it a go but didn't want to waste seeds if its really not a go-er now!
Ta!!

[Mr Bones]

Hope it's not too late, I've got some that's just germinated in seed trays. (Flea beetle and slugs have had my earlier plants).

[sparrow100]

You should be ok given you're in the balmy south - but you might have PSB later than normal next year. I did it 2 years ago and the plants actually performed better than the plugs I panic-bought.

[w33blegurl]

Fab thanks, will add those to todays to do list then!

[Penellype]

Last year my June sown broccoli really didn't want to play ball and I sowed 2 more seeds on 19th July. This is one of them (bucket on the right) in mid April this year:



Variety is Early Purple. The other bucket is Brokali, which had nearly finished.

[SusieG]

(I like your 'cold frame' Penellype ...!)

[Penellype]

(I like your 'cold frame' Penellype ...!)

Cheap and cheerful 2ft x 4ft "Greenhouse Cloche" from Wilko. I have 6 which I use as cloches, net covers covered with butterfly or insect mesh, and put together in different ways as support frames for fleece etc. Very, very useful.

[Bex2012]

Cheap and cheerful 2ft x 4ft "Greenhouse Cloche" from Wilko. I have 6 which I use as cloches, net covers covered with butterfly or insect mesh, and put together in different ways as support frames for fleece etc. Very, very useful.

Sorry to hijack, but those cloches are reduced to a fiver in wilkos at the moment

[Scoot]

Hope it's not too late, I've got some that's just germinated in seed trays. (Flea beetle and slugs have had my earlier plants).

I've got some that's just germinated too. I had some other PSB seeds sown earlier (mid June) in 3 inch pots but none of them germinated as they got soaked off the rain because i had them stood outside on the patio.

The one's that have just germinated were sown indoors on my window sill. I pricked them out the other day into individual pots, all 8 of them.

[vixylix]

I sowed mine early august last year and still had an early crop this year (bearing in mind the mild winter!) Nothing to lose by trying!

[roitelet]

I sow the plants to be grown outside in May but I always grow a few in the tunnel and they won't be sown until August. Any earlier and they will get too huge. Last year I had surplus plants from the late sowing. Shoved them in the ground and because the winter was mild had a crop from them. Smaller and more manageable plants. The early ones got to about 5ft.

It's not too late.

[Containergardener]

5ft ?