What I Sow in My Vegetable Yard in August

August is an fascinating and busy time in a vegetable yard, as many readers will little query be properly acutely aware. Most of your consideration is extra more likely to be on harvesting and tending the summer season crops.

For a lot of temperate native climate growers, the primary seed-sowing time is the spring. Nonetheless it is necessary, in the event you want to develop year-round, to proceed sowing all via the rest of the rising season.

Whereas there could also be usually a lull spherical midsummer, I sow additional crops for autumn, winter, and the subsequent spring whereas the current summer season may very well be very loads nonetheless in full stream. I am in Scotland and may proceed to sow correct up into September inside the polytunnel and customarily even previous.

A lot of the crops that will overwinter open air in my yard have already been sown in July—corresponding to some brassicas, as an example. And some overwintering crops, like peas and beans, winter onions, and garlic, will not be sown until autumn arrives, in September or October. Nonetheless that is what I’ve or will sow in my vegetable yard this August—largely in my polytunnel yard:

Lettuce & Completely different Leafy Greens

Cut back-and-Come As soon as extra Lettues, Land Cress, Chards, Endives, Radicchio

The fantastic thing about many lettuce varieties, notably cut-and-come-again varieties, is that they’re going to current a extremely quick crop. Some sown in August may be ready to reap in solely a month or so, making them on the market for autumn and winter consuming. This month, I usually fill gaps within the summertime yard with quick crops of lettuce or completely different quick leafy greens.

Longer-term lettuces may be sown this month for winter or early spring harvesting. And land cress, chards/perpetual spinach, and endives/radicchio, are completely different hardier winter greens that I sow by means of later summer season and into fall for harvests by means of the colder months in my polytunnel.

Brassicas

Kale, Broccoli, Tatsoi, Pak Choi, Mizuna, and Further

Not talked about above are many alternative leafy greens belonging to the cabbage or brassica plant family. Nonetheless brassicas are, the place I reside, staples of the winter yard. And so they’re in plenty of completely different locations too. This group of vegetation presents a wide range of decisions for cool season/winter rising.

I sowed kale exterior closing month. Kale may be eaten whereas they’re small over the autumn or overwintered for a staple and hardy winter crop. Purple sprouting broccoli is one different favorite of mine, already in place in my yard for a crop subsequent spring.

Now, my consideration turns to a whole lot of Asian brassica varieties. I am going to proceed to sow a range this month and subsequent in my polytunnel, along with tatsoi, pak choi, mizuna, mibuna, quite a few mustard greens, and additional.

Alliums

Bunching Onions, Scallions, Spring Onions

Many gardeners will sow onion items and garlic items in autumn for overwintering. Nonetheless sooner than that, I like to point out my consideration to sowing salad onions for a winter or spring harvest. Onions grown for his or her greens are less complicated to develop from seed than bulb-forming ones.

These onions mustn’t merely grown for his or her edible yield. One among many alternative foremost causes that I prefer to confirm I sow some this month is that they make an unbelievable companion crop for various winter crops or overwintering species. They’re helpful with their pungent aroma in pure pest administration.

Radishes

French Breakfast, Purple Globe, Black Spanish, Daikon

Radishes are sown little and typically all via the rising season, and as long as they get adequate water, they work very properly in my polytunnel yard. Completely different root crop sowing season is completed the place I reside. I normally succession sow the ultimate of the carrots and beets in July in my polytunnel. I moreover are inclined to sow turnips sooner than the tip of July. Nonetheless radishes of assorted varieties can nonetheless be sown this month.

I sow French breakfast and crimson globe radishes all via the summer season, nevertheless in August, my attentions flip to black Spanish radishes, and daikon radishes, every of which I sow sometime between July and September in my polytunnel.

Protect sowing in August, and this may allow you to to transition from summer season into the subsequent seasons and develop a yard that won’t merely feed you and your family members in summer season nevertheless all yr spherical.