Property News · August 7, 2021

How to make your salad days last | Alys Fowler


Now is the time to fill gaps in a vegetable patch with quick-germinating Asian vegetables and hardy lettucesThis is a month of inevitable holes as potatoes are dug up, lettuce bolts, peas comes to a mildewy end and dwarf french beans are picked bare. But the season is not over yet – there are plenty of vegetables that can be sown now in these gaps, to get growth before the days are too short. Days in September can be hotter than August, but daylight is already vanishing, and any seed sown then will struggle to grow before the cool sets in.First, there are the quick germinating vegetables from Asia such as mizuna, mibuna, mustards, choy sum and leaf radishes. These are easy sorts, as good in containers as in the ground. Sow a few batches in modules to plant out in polytunnel beds or pots on patios and in greenhouses once the tomatoes, aubergines and chillies are over. You can do the same for coriander and parsley; both winter well under protection. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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