As part of a bid to make this blog a better record of my activity in the garden I plan to post regularly (and as part of L’s Succession Planting Tuesday series) on the seeds I have sown each week. I am hoping that this will also assist me identify which crops are the best value for my garden and also how often I need to sow specific crops to ensure an ongoing supply. I seem to be running out of things like Bok choi all too regularly at the moment.
My first seed sowing this year was actually a couple of weeks ago. On the 9th January, before embarking on a short break at the beach, I sowed my first seeds for 2014. As well as attempting to ensure good succession crops of lettuce, spring onions, bok choi (although I haven’t actually had any bok choi in for a month or so) I also started sowing winter crops – kohl rabi, calabrese, and some cavolo nero.
I thought about sowing some cabbages and cauliflowers but I don’t think I will have sufficient bed space at the right point if I sow now so they will have to wait until February or March.
Seeds sown:
- Lettuce – ‘Salad Bowl Green’
- Leeks – ‘Jumbo’
- Spring Onions – ‘Bunching’
- Broccoli – ‘Calabrese’
- Kohl Rabi – ‘Purple’
- Cavolo Nero
- Bok Choi*
- Pak Choi*
- Dill
- Bean – Royal Burgandy
- Bean – Jade
- Bean – Majestic Butter
*Although my understanding is that bok and pak choi are basically the same plant these are the names on the respective seed packets I used. Thanks to Nina for the pak choi seed.
So far all the brassicas have germinated along with a couple of dill seeds. The aliums and lettuce have yet to appear. The beans, which were the only ones sown direct – in the ground – have also started to appear. I really must get more organised with my labelling though as although I will be able to tell them apart once they produce beans at this point I’m not sure which ones are up and which aren’t.
I’m sure I have forgotten some crops – radishes spring to mind, so I would love to know what you are sowing at the moment.
