What to plant now for autumn/winter

[itsybitsy]

What can I be planting now which will be ready from October onwards?

[diamond lil]

I'd like to know this too

[hobo]

If you haven't already, sow french beans, runner beans, peas, carrots and beetroot.
Get in your swedes, turnips, squash, pumpkins, courgettes, marrows, sweetcorn, leeks and cucumber.

My reference book is 'Vegetable Growing Month by Month' by John Harrison - £3.49 inc free delivery from Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegetable-Growi ... 668&sr=8-1

BARGAIN!

Hobo

[itsybitsy]

If you haven't already, sow french beans, runner beans, peas, carrots and beetroot.
Get in your swedes, turnips, squash, pumpkins, courgettes, marrows, sweetcorn, leeks and cucumber.

Hobo

Bloody hell Hobo - how much do you lot eat!

I don't like any fibrous veg so swede/turnip/squash/pumpkin/marrow are a definite no no for me. But I'll get online and pick some of the other seeds up from realseeds.co.uk

Thanks for the info.

[diamond lil]

Turnip and leeks will do for me, soup pot/crock pot veg. Ta!

[WhiteWolf]

Try this site (Allotment Vegetable Growing), the linked page below has a month by month grow section at the bottom of the page.

Linky Here

This is a very good site for all veggie questions, tis worth joining even if you don't have a Lotty

WW

[hobo]

Bloody hell Hobo - how much do you lot eat!

Haha, wish I did have all that lot in. Got plenty of fruit, tatties, onions, peas, courgettes and garlic. That's it....till the weekend anyway. Am clearing and planting the (new) allotment bit by bit....

Hobo

[itsybitsy]

I think I'm just going to grow whatever is easiest (and that I will eat) this year. I am getting slightly 'antsy' at the prospect of winter being upon us and the fact that everything is going up in price so quickly, so I'm thinking tatties, leeks, carrots and beetroot. I'm getting a niggling feeling in my gut that we are all running out of time.

I am a bit gutted about my poor tomatoes. Six plants, and I've already had to bin two of them and there's another going in the bin tonight. One is growing well and the remaining two just seem to have stopped completely. I've started feeding them once a week now. And something has started to eat my little gem lettuce too.

I spend around £3-4 a week on tomatoes so if I could have gotten those plants off the ground that would have been great.

[diamond lil]

Can you grow them inside the house ? South facing windowsills? Nothing will eat them and they cant blow down. With you 100% on the shivers-up-the-spine feeling though. Looking at my back garden which is still mainly grass and listening to his nibs promising "next year I'll dig you that bit".. why the hell not this year ?

[itsybitsy]

Can you grow them inside the house ? South facing windowsills? Nothing will eat them and they cant blow down. With you 100% on the shivers-up-the-spine feeling though. Looking at my back garden which is still mainly grass and listening to his nibs promising "next year I'll dig you that bit".. why the hell not this year ?

My south facing windowsills are full of chilli plants. Anybody looking up at my back bedroom will think I'm growing weed! I'm waiting for a knock on the door from the local constabulary!