Showing posts with label July. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July. Show all posts

Wednesday 17 July 2013

I sowed today

- Pea Douce Provence is a compact growing variety that only reaches a height of 45cm.
Seeds germinate 7-10 days.

- Chicory, RadicchioPalla Rossa 2” -“Red ball”
It’s a perennial, so you once you establish your plants, you can harvest your radicchio for many more years.
Days to germination: 6 to 10 days
Days to harvest: 60 to 80 days
There are three different types of chicory 'forcing' chicory, red chicory or radicchio and 'non-forcing' chicory. 'Palla Rossa', or sometimes called 'Palla rossa Zorzi Precoce', is a radicchio with a delicate, tangy flavour. It is best planted later in the year as it colours better in cooler weather.
It’s a leafy salad green, and not related the radish even though the names are similar. Radicchio is also sometimes called Italian chicory to further complicate things, though it is closely related.
For a second fall crop, you can start another batch of seeds about 8 to 10 weeks before you expect to get the first frosts of winter
Don’t flood the plants.
Once they go to seed (bolt), the leaves will almost immediately get too bitter to eat.
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- Cucumbers - Cucumis sativus.
Time between sowing and harvesting 12-14 weeks.

Wednesday 18 July 2012

July. What to do now in your vegetable garden


What to do now in your vegetable garden
: "Summer in March, winter in May, spring in June - climate change isn’t making it easy for veg growers. We can no longer grow ‘by the book’, but have to use our ingenuity to adapt to whatever the weather throws at us. Undercover space in a greenhouse or polytunnel has been invaluable this year."
Continue to sow outdoors - July. Here!
And here!
Winter Radish or Mooli, Daikon or Chinese Radish.
Lettuces,
Carrots - Late varieties – such as Autumn king.
Florence fennel - for sowing before mid June, choose a cultivar listed as suitable for early sowing; some cultivars are very sensitive to day length and will bolt if sown before the longest day (21st June); until early August
French beans- until end June, or July for a late crop of dwarf beans under cloches
Peas- maincrop, mangetout and sugarsnap until end of July. Sow a quick, 'early' variety such as
-"Douce Provence" is a cross between Meteor and Kelvedon Wonder. It is very early, round-seeded and an excellent cropper. This variety can be sown November or early spring for early cropping before the late spring sown varieties. Grows to a height of 45cm.
- 'Meteor'
- Kelvedon Wonder - quick-maturing peas - 65 days
- Onward - quick-maturing peas.
- Sugar Ann - (snap pea), mangetout (French for "eat all"), the Sugar Ann is sweet flavored and juicy. As one of the earliest maturing snap pea varieties, Sugar Ann is a very easy growing and prolific producer. Benefits: Early Maturing, Heavy Yielding

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