Property News · June 16, 2023

The crops you can sow over and over to eat well all summer


Successional sowing can keep your vegetable plot productive for longer – and avoid a glut of cropsThe sound of the veg patch in June is riotous. There are marmalade hoverflies, buff-tailed bumblebees and cabbage white butterflies flitting by, eyeing up the (netted) brassica bed. After a sluggish start to the season, it finally feels as though the garden is kicking into gear.While there are many plants that you sow once a year (tomatoes, chillies, winter squash and aubergine, to name a few) and nurture until they’re ready to be picked, there are a number of crops that you can – and should – sow more often than that. Taking a successional approach to growing – a few seeds sown every month or so – ensures that you have a regular yield of ready-to-eat crops instead of all of your harvests arriving at the same time. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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