Colin Davidson wrote:

I'm seeing a man about an allotment this evening.

I'm really looking forward to having more space than I've got in our little
garden to grow food in. But it's a bit late in the season. Obviously I can
plant some later cropping carrots, some green salad veg that crop in autumn,
I can probably squeeze in some late beans, but what else can I get into the
ground in the next month or two?

Cheers,

Colin.


If you can get a few metres 'Blanket Mulched' and then get a bag of
compost in then its not too late to do some 'clearing crops' such as
pumkin, tomatoes, mebbe even some 'early' corn and peas. (Early just
means they crop quicker, and you could try an early spud or 2 if you can
find some late seed. With the pumkins you can sow direct, with the rest
try and pick up some late plants.

As others have mentioned think now about fruit for next year, rhubarb,
cane & bush fruits (Rasp.Jos, Goos, Logan, Black) and perrenial
vegetables. A lot of these are btter of waiting till the dormant season
however. If you like swede then the next few months is a goodd time to
sow IF you can water them regularly.

And of course the usual stuff such as herbs, pollinator and predator
attractants and cover crops etc can all be sown freely, esp the annual
ones.

See also the New Allotment FAQ which loiters on the web somewhere.. The
links are posted here on a regular basis
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Jim