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Vegetables to Overwinter

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A quick reminder of veg. you can sow over the next month to have crops during ‘the hungry gap’:

Lettuce, sow early September harvest April – May (make sure you use a winter hardy cultivar)
Spring cabbage, sow August – September harvest March – May (choose hardy cultivars if you live in the north of England or Scotland)


Brassicas growing earlier this year

Spinach, sow early September harvest April – June
Salad onions, sow now to early September harvest April – May
Leaf beets, sow until end of August harvest April – June
Milan turnips, sow to end of August harvest October

Make sure you protect them from slugs and pigeons though!

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"Make sure you protect them from slugs and pigeons though!"

Easier said than done MG. In theory I'm all for it but in practice I'm hopeless. Can I blame my sticky clay soil? Oh, and I've just remembered, we thought we'd let the chooks have a free range in the veg plot over winter.

24 Aug, 2010

 

Ach well... let them have fun!!!

24 Aug, 2010

 

heron i let mine wander in garden now and again they will eat slugs and snails so poor penny dosent have to go out in the dark .!!!!

26 Aug, 2010

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