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Planting Vegetables and Herbs in Summer

8
Jul
Planting Vegetables and Herbs in Summer
By Kejsy
/ in Garden Ideas,Gardening Tips
/ tags garden, Gardening, Gardening Tips, Vegetable
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Planting Vegetables and Herbs in Summer

Most of these crops are easy to grow. A good choice if you are growing for the first time.

Leafy veg

Asian greens – this is one of the best times of year to show mizuna, mibuna, pak choi, red giant, green in the snow, Chinese cabbage, choy sum, Chinese broccoli and other Asian greens. Fast growing and tasty, these leaves make fantastic container crops. All can be eaten in salads or lightly cooked in a stir fry. The flowers are edible, too!

Kale – a versatile crop – sow now and eat the small leaves in salads in August and September and / or leave some of the plants to mature into hardier specimens to survive the winter. The variety, cavelo nero, looks particularly beautiful and stately in containers.

Planting Vegetables and Herbs in Summer

Rainbow or Bright lights chard – one of the prettiest and most cheerful leafy crops you can grow in a container. Sow now and harvest the leaves from late summer into winter and spring.

Landcress – a tasty salad leaf, a bit like water cress, that is also hardy and will survive through the winter, growing well again in spring.

Summer purslane – an unusual succulent salad crop, with pretty round leaves. Tiny seeds! (I’d avoid this one if you are new to growing)
Pea and bean shoots – super fast and easy to grow.



Herbs

Coriander, parsley, chervil, dill and lovage can all be sown now – and basil if you’re quick! If you have a friend with a herb garden, now is also a good time of year to ask them if you can take some cuttings from herbs like mint, thyme, rosemary, sage, lemon verbena and tarragon. Of course, you can also buy these herbs from a nursery now, too.

Planting Vegetables and Herbs in Summer

Root veg

Carrots, beetroot, turnips, spring onions and radish can all be sown now. A few spring onions in containers are always a good idea – their smell can confuse and deter pests! (Although I always grow a few, I’m not such a big fan of root veg in containers. Simply because when you harvest it you have to pull out the whole plant – whereas leafy crops and fruiting crops can usually be harvested over several weeks or months).

Planting Vegetables and Herbs in Summer



Other

Fennel – now is the best time of year to sow fennel. I love fennel in containers – the fronds contrast well with other leaves, and the taste of home grown fennel has a sparkle that is missing from shop bought.

Planting Vegetables and Herbs in Summer

Source verticalveg.org.uk

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