In message , Jason Pope
writes

Just wondering whether you budding gardeners out there could give me a
bit of advice about what vegetables I could sow from seed, plant, at
the moment.


Things you can still sow in early September, if you aren't too far
north:

various chicories such as frisee* and pain de sucre*
lambs lettuce*
land cress
winter lettuces, eg merveille des quatre saisons*
rocket
winter spinach, eg giant winter
oriental mustards, eg green-in-snow, amsoi, giant red mustard
winter radishes, eg belrosa
spring onions

* these all feature in Mr Fothergill's "The French Salad" collection.
Although the packet says sow from March to August I sowed them in
September last year and had useful pickings right through the winter.
I'm in north London, though.

If you can provide some frost protection later on in the form of fleece
or plastic then it's well worth trying other oriental vegetables such as
mizuna, pak choi, choi sum and tah tsai. The beauty of all of these
anyway is that you can eat them young, either raw in salads or steamed
or stir-fried; they don't have to become mature plants in the
conventional sense. Similarly, if you sow turnips now you may not get
much in the way of roots but you will almost certainly get some tasty
greens.

For a good selection of oriental vegetable seeds, try
www.suffolkherbs.com.

Max
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Max Wright
www.wys-systems.demon.co.uk/plotcrop