Monthly Sowing Calendar: July & August

I know I have been late this year posting some of these sowing calendars, there is still plenty of time to keep your vegetable plot productive over the upcoming Winter well into the Spring, this time of the year albeit cold, is a great time to be growing as you are not as suffocated with jobs once you have cleared away all of the dead summer crops and finished the basic after summer jobs, there is less watering that needs doing and not as many pests around – plus I love being outdoors when it’s cold! There’s nothing like fire-boiling a pot to make yourself some fresh brew even perhaps a nice Hot Chocolate!

Spinach for winter harvest as well as spring thrush

Overwintering Spring Cabbages

Bulb Fennel

Outdoors

• Final sowings of root crops including carrots, beetroot, turnips (until mid-July)

• Winter radishes and swedes

• Dwarf french beans (up to early July) in warmer areas only

• Oriental greens (mizuna, mibuna, komatsuna, etc) and turnip greens

• Lettuce, moving over to winter varieties by late August, rocket, cress, endive and salad radishes

• Swiss chard & leaf beet such as perpetual spinach

• Chive and Chicory

• Fennel

• Spring & Chinese cabbage (from late July)

• Bunching and spring onions

Polytunnel / greenhouse border:

• Chervil & Coriander

• Salads, particularly in later summer as other crops finish.

Under Cover outdoors:

• True Spinach (Winter Spinach)