September Sowing Guide

 Use the links I have in the left margin and visit seed suppliers, they just love to tell you what you can buy and grow each month.

Here is a prime example from MoreVeg 

September Sowing Guide

Some vegetables will need to be sown under cover or with the protection of cloches or fleece as the temperatures dip, other varieties can still be sown in the open.  Full details can be found on every packet. 

Baby Leaf – Astra, Barese, Catalogna Cerbiatta, Deronda, Italiko Rosso, Red Carpet, Red Wizard, Rubino, Sangrai and the mixes too

Beetroot – Early Wonder

Broccoli Raab

Cabbages – Wheelers Imperial

Cauliflower – All Year Round & Orkney

Chicory – Brussels Witloof & Pain de Sucre

Chinese Broccoli – Kaibroc & Rafiki

Choy Sum – Fuubi, Gunsho, Red Hon Tsai-Tai & Purple

Collards – Champion, Flash, Morris Heading & Vates

Corn Salad – D’Orlanda, Dutch Broad Leaf, Elan, Verte de Cambrai & Vit

Cress – all 6 choices

Endive – Catalogna Garnet Stem, Cornet de Bordeaux & Paniclieri

Kale – Premier & Scarlet

Kohl Rabi – Korfu

Komatsuna – Malachai & Samurai

Leaf Beet – lots of choices including Perpetual Spinach

Lettuce –Black Seeded Simpson, Bountiful Blend, Cantarix, Crispino, Freckles, Gilaad, Lobjoits, Marvel of Four Seasons, Prizehead, Red Grenoble, Rouge de Hiver, Trocadero & Waldman’s Dark Green

Mibuna, Minutina, Mitsuba & Mizuna

Mustard Leaves – 8 choices

Namenia

Onion - Hi Keeper F1, Kosma & Musona White Italian

Orach – Scarlet Emperor

Pak Choi – Golden Yellow, Green Revolution, Hanakan, Joi Choi, Summer Breeze,Tatsoi Rosette & Yuushou

Shungiku

Parsley – Bravour, Extra Triple Curled, French Plain Leaf & Laura

Pea – Avola

Purslane – summer and winter

Radish – Crimson Giant, French Breakfast, Malaga Violet, Miyashige (mooli type), Saxa & Sparkler

Rhubarb – Champagne

Rocket – Esmee, Give, Napoli, Rucola & Wild Rocket

Spinach – Amazon, Avon, Banjo, Gazelle, Giant Winter, Harp, Matador, Medania, Renegade & Trombone

Spring Onions – Eiffel, Entita, Parade, Summer Island, Tipika, White Lisbon & Winter Hardy White Lisbon

Strawberries – Alexandria, Alpine Yellow & Wild Strawberry

Texel Greens

Turkish Rocket

Turnips – Goldana & Snowball

Flowers –Agrostemma, Ammi Majus, Foxglove, Honessty, Larkspur, Limnanthes, Malva, Ox-Eye Daisy and Poppies (Papaver Shirley Doubles will flower for months in any sunny space you can spare)

Herbs – British Basil (inside), Caraway, Celery Leaf, Chervil, Coriander Filtro, Lavender, Marsh Mallow, Stridolo & Sweet Cicely

Green Manure –  Crimson Clover, Field Mustard & Phacelia

September Sowing Guide

 Use the links I have in the left margin and visit seed suppliers, they just love to tell you what you can buy and grow each month.

Here is a prime example from MoreVeg 

September Sowing Guide

 

Some vegetables will need to be sown under cover or with the protection of cloches or fleece as the temperatures dip, other varieties can still be sown in the open.  Full details can be found on every packet. 

 

Baby Leaf – Astra, Barese, Catalogna Cerbiatta, Deronda, Italiko Rosso, Red Carpet, Red Wizard, Rubino, Sangrai and the mixes too

Beetroot – Early Wonder

Broccoli Raab

Cabbages – Wheelers Imperial

Cauliflower – All Year Round & Orkney

Chicory – Brussels Witloof & Pain de Sucre

Chinese Broccoli – Kaibroc & Rafiki

Choy Sum – Fuubi, Gunsho, Red Hon Tsai-Tai & Purple

Collards – Champion, Flash, Morris Heading & Vates

Corn Salad – D’Orlanda, Dutch Broad Leaf, Elan, Verte de Cambrai & Vit

Cress – all 6 choices

Endive – Catalogna Garnet Stem, Cornet de Bordeaux & Paniclieri

Kale – Premier & Scarlet

Kohl Rabi – Korfu

Komatsuna – Malachai & Samurai

Leaf Beet – lots of choices including Perpetual Spinach

Lettuce –Black Seeded Simpson, Bountiful Blend, Cantarix, Crispino, Freckles, Gilaad, Lobjoits, Marvel of Four Seasons, Prizehead, Red Grenoble, Rouge de Hiver, Trocadero & Waldman’s Dark Green

Mibuna, Minutina, Mitsuba & Mizuna

Mustard Leaves – 8 choices

Namenia

Onion - Hi Keeper F1, Kosma & Musona White Italian

Orach – Scarlet Emperor

Pak Choi – Golden Yellow, Green Revolution, Hanakan, Joi Choi, Summer Breeze,Tatsoi Rosette & Yuushou

Shungiku

Parsley – Bravour, Extra Triple Curled, French Plain Leaf & Laura

Pea – Avola

Purslane – summer and winter

Radish – Crimson Giant, French Breakfast, Malaga Violet, Miyashige (mooli type), Saxa & Sparkler

Rhubarb – Champagne

Rocket – Esmee, Give, Napoli, Rucola & Wild Rocket

Spinach – Amazon, Avon, Banjo, Gazelle, Giant Winter, Harp, Matador, Medania, Renegade & Trombone

Spring Onions – Eiffel, Entita, Parade, Summer Island, Tipika, White Lisbon & Winter Hardy White Lisbon

Strawberries – Alexandria, Alpine Yellow & Wild Strawberry

Texel Greens

Turkish Rocket

Turnips – Goldana & Snowball

Flowers –Agrostemma, Ammi Majus, Foxglove, Honessty, Larkspur, Limnanthes, Malva, Ox-Eye Daisy and Poppies (Papaver Shirley Doubles will flower for months in any sunny space you can spare)

Herbs – British Basil (inside), Caraway, Celery Leaf, Chervil, Coriander Filtro, Lavender, Marsh Mallow, Stridolo & Sweet Cicely

Green Manure –  Crimson Clover, Field Mustard & Phacelia

We Have Parsnip Germination

I put the Parsnips in the Takeaway Containers on the 7th March 2020 and I have not looked at them for the last couple of days, and I think I really should have.  Above is the Johnsons Organic Tender & True and I have moved 10 that have chitted into loo rolls full of compost

You can see the root just forming on the one in the top left corner in the photo above and the roots on the three on the bottom row must be  a day or two old.

Above is the Thompson & Morgan White Gem and they have also started to sprout and I potted on 10 from this container into loo rolls 

The roots on these are shorter and I suspect are a day behind the Tender & True 

I've drilled the bottle cap with 6 number 1mm holes to turn the small 500ml Coke Bottle into a mini watering can which is so usefull for watering seed trays in the grow stations and the Space Saver Greenhouse  

I've only managed to save 20 loo roll tubes, so these have been filled with MPC and the top 5mm with seedling compost and the seeds have been pricked out and dropped with root downwards into the centre of the roll.

I will need to take these down to the allotment and get them in the ground before the roots get to the end of the loo roll so perhaps a trip tomorrow or Tuesday.

Ready, Get Set ....

So I goofed off from work and the computer for an hour to get my external grow station set up and the two portable grow stations set back up and installed in my broom cupboard office. So whilst SWMBO is watching her soaps tonight I will be sorting out the seeds and labels and the sowing will commence.

March Sowing & Growing Update

Here are the Lobjoits Green and Little Gem lettuces that were sown on the 6th March and last photographed on the 17th March when I did My Seed Box - Lettuce Review. I'm not sure if I will bother with sowing any more Lobjoits Green in a hurry as the germination rate is poor especially at three seeds per station, and I have many more varieties in the box to play with.

I have sown another 12 modules of Little Gem today because we like them

12 Modules of Reine des Glaces at one seed per module because that was all the seeds I had of that type from a seed circle.

The Bettollo F1 Beetroots  sown on the 16th March are just showing in the Space Saver Greenhouse where as the ones sown on 24th March just four days ago in the LED Grow Station are already more developed than them. Makes me feel like adding another box and grow light panel to the Portable Grow Light Station.

The North Holland Blood Red Spring Onions are doing well sown on the 16th March in the LED Grow House 12 days ago and moved to the space saver greenhouse six days ago. The do want to lean towards the light/ front of the greenhouse, but I keep turning them every couple of days to try and correct the lean.    

The Sprouts and Cauliflowers are doing OK, but I think that they need to be moved out of the Space saver Greenhouse and into the cold frame especially if we start having sunny days and higher day time temperatures.

Not all the varieties of cabbage are doing as well as each other and some have turned up their toes and will need re sowing, or replacements found, I think the sun and heat in the last couple of days could have knocked them back, but the Pixie & Prmo 2 didn't look particularly strong to start with. 

The tomatoes are doing well in the brick grow house and do not look too purple stemmed, as the night time temperatures in there are better than the space saver greenhouse. The ones in the small modules need moving up to vending machine cups in the next couple of days. I was hoping to have lost a tray of spuds in the ground over the weekend just gone to give me some extra space in here, but it didn't happen 

The Air Onions really need moving into their final bed but that realistically is not going to happen until next weekend if the weather remains fine and allows.

I still have to cut the scaffold boards, cut some weed membrane, dig and weed the bed and surrounding area, construct the bed and line with the weed membrane, decant compost from the dalek to fill and then plant the onions that's a full days work going on how long it took for the other tree/ walking onion bed.