- Radishes: September is the optimal time to sow summer radishes for the last time outdoors, as well as to start winter varieties like daikon and Spanish black radishes, which can also be sown in modules before being transplanted outside.
- Spring Onions and Oriental Greens: Spring onions can be sown directly or in modules and are noted for their flavorful leaves. Early September is also suitable for sowing Oriental greens such as pak choy, tatsoi, and mizuna, which thrive in cooler conditions and are less likely to bolt.
- Mustards and Cover Crops: Mustard varieties can be sown now, offering a quick-growing crop with a spicy flavor. Additionally, cover crops like phacelia, field peas, and field beans can be planted to protect soil over winter, with field beans also serving as a substantial crop harvested in late spring.
- Crops for Undercover Cultivation: Transitioning to undercover growing, crops like rocket, spinach, and winter varieties of lettuce are suggested. These can be sown in spaces like polytunnels and cold frames to extend the growing season and protect against colder weather.
- Specialty Crops and Challenges: The guide ends with recommendations for sowing napa cabbage, coriander, and a unique variety known as Wawa kaichoi for a gardening challenge, highlighting the importance of undercover cultivation to ensure growth and protection during the winter months.
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I don't like plastic.. so what can I sow now? And which perennials are great to have?
What is that beautiful flowering purple plant behind you at the very end right next to the grow tunnel?
Hi Huw, love your content. I see you have some seed buckets with your packets of seeds in. Can I ask how you sort them?
Huw, I read through the comments and it seems more videos about cover crops (green manures) would be great and how to make kale chips! 😂 I would love more videos about cover crops because I'm just getting into using them and find it interesting. Last winter I kept looking out the back window at the veg garden, with so many bare patches, and I knew that was bad. This year, I'm ready with all kinds of green manures/cover crops. I've scattered mustard seed on a big patch where the potatoes were, but some areas didnt come up. I'm not sure if I should wait to see if it comes up or walk on it and sow more?
I have planted most of the green , spring onions etc …. nothing grew or it was ate by snails before the even came up 😢
Love your work Huw and I agree radish will grow but who actually wants to eat them.
Outdoors:
Summer radishes
Daikon radishes
Spring onions
Pak choi
Pat soi
Mitzuna
Mustards
Field beans, field peas
Rocket
Undercover crops:
Giant winter spinach
Winter varieties of lettuce
Peas for shoots
Kale
Savoy cabbages
Napa cabbage/Chinese cabbage
Coriander
Wa wa cai choi
Just for ease of reference, thanks Huw!
What are you using on your bok choi to keep the critters off it. Mine is considered a trap crop because it gets annihilated.
These videos are so helpful! I really need to do my planning in November for next year 🤦♀️
I'll hold off for a few more weeks here in central France as its currently 35-40C and has been for weeks…infact this season has seen the dryest spring to summer ever, very little rain …still its been a great year for tomatoes , courgettes,french beans(now drying on the pod)melons, physalis, onions and funnily enough potatoes (Charlotte and Mona Lisa) though so many things just wouldn't germinate and those that did bolted so quickly …..I tried to grow an Australian plant (Brocolini) a sprouting brocolli but too hot hahaha so will try next month and over winter it …will try some diakon for our kimchi though
What is your growing zone?
Never seem to have any luck with any type of onion! I love onions, too.
give the garden a rest over winter
Do u have a video on how to make those blue hoops over the beds behind you?
I have raised beds and a polytunnel but most of my crops are ruined by slugs. I have millions of them and i lose everything. Can you help?
I love your videos but I have to ask for something : Can you please consistently add some language around what zone you’re in or at least where you are located when you make these „grow this in x month“ type videos? I live in Texas and nothing you recommend for September applies here. Doesn’t stop me from watching your beautiful videos 😊 but I fear you might confuse some new growers who live in different climates if they try to follow your recommendations.
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Hi Huw, looking forward your update on 'wa wa cai choi'， I paused and read the words on the package, actually, it is quite intresting in several ways.
1. in China we have a famous brassica named '娃娃菜( pronounced as 'wa wa tsai', literally means 'baby vegetable' or 'baby Chinese cabbage)'，it is a lovely whitey yellowish smaller version of Chinese cabbage, hence the name, you can copy and paste 娃娃菜 on google if you want to know how it looks like.
2. You may nocticed that there is a forth word in the name, 'choi', in fact, it is also the transliteration of '菜' in Cantenese( it is a southern Chinese dialect), so, both 'CAI' and 'choi' mean '菜', you only need one of them in the name. But I fully understand why REAL SEEDS added a redundent 'choi', it's THE word for Oriental brassicas, people in the west will know it better if there is a 'choi' in the name.
3. Did you google it? Yes, wa wa cai 娃娃菜 is NOT a 'stem vegetable', it is a leafy vegetable, but don't worry, you were not fooled.
4. There is another Chinese brassica named 儿菜, pronounced as 'er tsai', literally means‘ son vegetable’, you can google儿菜 too, according to the introduction on the package, those seeds are 儿菜, not 娃娃菜.
5. Both 娃娃菜 and 儿菜are fantastic brassicas, the former one is usually ate in Chinese hotpot, 火锅， google it, the latter one is usually sliced and stir-fried. For 儿菜， You can cut it in half and grill it if you don't know how to stir-fry, season with just a pinch of salt and pepper, I bet you will love it.
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Wow! I remember when the subs. were in the hundreds. Well done Huw!
I'm not sure I'd survive on radishes, mustard seeds and pakchoi. I hope me spuds in the tunnel produce.
aw huw….. I love that you threw a self seed tomato over your shoulder lol
The growing tips of broad beans can be eaten and are very tasty. Anyone know if the same applies to field beans? I would expect it is the case but just want to be certain.
Thanks for this video, Huw! I would love to see a video on green manure that includes all stages: planting, growing, and finally what to do in spring.
FORGET "The THING" ( Wa Wa pak choi ) -it bloody bolts every time, or dies if sown in autumn – guess how I know this?
OTOH – I recommend polytunnel(Well, greenhouse ) grown coriander
HINT: My "Real_Seeds" order arrived this morning – including Sutherland Kale & Dutch Mammoth Dill
OMG thank you Dave I have shared this to as many of my friends as I can, love love this video
I love your videos and books. Could i ask what variety of field beans or peas you sow, I got a bit confused when I went looking yesterday? Many thanks.
Diolch!
Thanks Huw! Any tips for keeping brassicas safe mine have all been eaten even when I have netted them 😢 they are full of caterpillars 🐛
I started watching and then thought to myself… "Wait, we get buried in snow and ice for at least 3 months with 'balmy' temps around the minus 20C mark. Not sure this would work for me." Garlic yes, but sad for the rest. Blessings from Canada.
poncey shit veg.