I have harvested the last of the peas from my little planter. The spring onions are coming out in the next couple of days. Carrots and Beetroot will be gone by next weekend.
I have tomatoes in the top planter bit which leaves me with a 5ft x 2ft planting area which is 2 ft deep.
Any suggestions of what veg to plant in there?
Don't like potato. Already have butternut squash, melon, pumpkin and sweetcorn elsewhere in the garden
I'm interested to hear what people suggest. I think you can plant winter greens such as kale now but I'm not sure what else.
Is it too late for LEEKS?
how about some chilli peppers? treat as tomatoes
What about some salad crops? At least you'll get a quick crop, then you can worry about what to put in for winter 🙂
Cabbage and greens?
Peas and beans next month maybe.
My lettuce started coming out leaf by Leaf last week, green and crunchy, they don't take to long.
Sprouts? We got ours in the other weekend and they are coming along nicely. With any luck they should be ready in time for Christmas.
Failing that, you could try radishes, they are supposed to be quick to grow, mature and harvest.
I'd say hold off on the chillis... If you are growing from seed, then they won't be ready any time soon, but if you are buying them in, you'll only have a short time to harvest until the weather starts getting a little cool for them. Normal peppers may be the same.
A body.
You might have to cut some limbs off if its a tall person though.
Won't get many cabbage/kale in the container. Will beans have time?
As everyone else has said really. You have 3 options..
1) Salad Leaves/ Lettuce,
2) Salad Onions (Lisbons are the best IMO)
3) Spring Cabbage (my Durham early seeds are going to get planted at the end of the month and replace my Spuds when they're harvested)
WCA - How's your Butternut Squash coming on ?
I was doing some sowing yesterday, putting spinach and beetroot in for the autumn.
If you want spinach, you'll probably have to go for spinach beet (not true spinach but more flexible and bolt-resistant, and still very tasty).
The beetroot variety I used is Detriot.
I've also sown dwarf french beans in modules in the greenhouse yesterday, with a view to planting them out in a few weeks and eating around september/october.
We've had almost zero luck with our beetroot this year. Most of them failed to turn into anything resembling a beet, and the ones that did were tiny things.
Had more luck with radishes, but even then that seemed more like luck.
Our runner beans are currently the daddies of the veg patch. Producing stacks of fruit.
Drowning under a mountain of broad beans here - and some cracking potatoes. We've even managed our first ickle carrots as well!
pak choi, i put some in last week and its up and coming on nicely, should be done in 6 or 7 weeks.
What we've been planting at work (work for a market gardeners in East Yorkshire) latery is Spring Cabbage, Purple Broccoli, Curly lettuce. Can't think of everything else, but i'll try and remember when im at work tomorrow, they all look the same when you've got trays of 250 plugs, 16-30 trays of each variety! lol