Now I have my vegetable Garden ready I am itching to get some crops going, but what can I plant at this time of year? I want something I can get quick results from as I’m impatient!
I also want to grow vegetables that we’ll actually use, so I’m going to try Chard (or leaf beet) the variety ‘Bright Lights’ looks great with colourful stems and tastes like spinach, which my husband loves, we’ll also make good use of leeks and beetroot.
Winter lettuce, lambs lettuce, Rocket and Chinese cabbage will do well until November for salads and I’m going to try some radishes and baby carrots as they can crop within 4 weeks.
That’s just what I’m going to try but there are many other vegetables you can grow in August so if your earlier crops have been disappointing don’t give up!
Over the week-end we visited John Browns to get some ready grown Autumn vegetable seedlings and some fruit bushes. As we have limited space in the flat the little packs of seedlings are just perfect meaning we don’t have to germinate them on our limited windowsills, we just planted them straight into the veggie beds after we’d made net cages to stop the local cats using the beds as big litter trays! Some bamboo canes, crop protection netting and cable ties were easy to assemble around the beds and should also keep butterflies and birds off our precious crops.
