What I’m sowing and growing in July and August and why!
Vložit
- čas přidán 30. 06. 2023
- Here's my database for July: airtable.com/shrguTQMp9q5ZutGl
Here's the database for August: airtable.com/shrQKy2RquldTOqbi
If you’d like to explore more then I have loads of great resources for you, including hundreds of extra videos, my comprehensive gardening ebook, my gardening app, data on everything I grow and when I grow it and so much more. Everything I do is free to use, but not to create!
For my whole ebook/course go here: steverichards.notion.site/Gar...
For my Amazon store go here: www.amazon.co.uk/shop/stevess...
For reference information on what to do each month and what I actually do, go here: steverichards.notion.site/Ref...
For my gardening apps go here: steves.seasidelife.com/2020/0...
For polytunnel and greenhouse growing: steverichards.notion.site/Pol...
For my year round growing guides: steverichards.notion.site/Yea...
For my guides to individual veggies: steverichards.notion.site/Ind...
For my 8 step guide to self sufficiency: steverichards.notion.site/8-S...
For my gardening basics course: steverichards.notion.site/The...
For info on harvesting: steverichards.notion.site/Har...
For my FAQ document and video: steves.seasidelife.com/2020/0...
My books and videos are all grounded in what I actually do, I make sure you can see the evidence. For example if I suggest sowing carrots in November, take a look at my monthly tours to see them growing and my harvest videos for May to see the actual results. I'm not just about regurgitaing information from the backs of seed packets!
Just because all my resources are 'free of charge', to everyone, doesn't mean they aren't good quality. My objective is to make sure that there's no need to be rich to get access to great gardening information. I do however have a lot of costs to cover and my time is valuable to me, so please consider supporting me at www.buymeacoffee.com/steveric...
Fennel and radicchio salad with sliced up oranges in the winter is one of my favorite things about winter. The fennel and the orange (and I add raisins and lettuce if I have it) help to counteract the bitterness of the radicchio. Slice the fennel bulb and the radicchio super thinly. It's a true winter delight.
Thankyou Steve, this is invaluable to know what to plant now. Thankyou for your time xx
Great video with a lot of information. I've struggled to garden this year, blown very hot and cold. I lost a friend who was an amazing gardener that I had known for 10 years. I'm trying to get back into it, your videos always help me to think ahead and to get out there and plant
Excellent and timely info. No one does it better!
Once again humbled by the amount of knowledge and information you share with the world. Appreciated and good weekend sir
We had loads of self seeded miners lettuce this year - it was absolutely everywhere - in the tunnel, in cut down water buts, in raised beds and in plant pots!
I’m quite good at removing it before it flowers, but I have a few volunteers too
Lots of useful information, especially the lambs lettuce which I’ll be growing for the first time this year. Thanks Steve 😊
I have a growing guide if you want more: steverichards.notion.site/Individual-growing-guides-bc279089de074c0ab0bfedc4f41d54dd?pvs=4
Thank you for sharing, your knowledge is 1st class 😊
Good one Steve 👍
I love your planning ahead videos Steve. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us all.
Thanks for sharing!
Super, as always!
Great video! Thanks
Another my favorite "what I'm sowing " video because that "and why!" is $$$. I call it my monthly garden "why" videos 😂. My first year planting in unheated greenhouse so I'm excited to hear all your helpful comments about crop choices outside vs cover. Loved winter spinach example. Appreciate sharing your experience!
great info, cheers Steve
Sorry to hear that life is being a pain, Steve. I’d like to thank you for access to your ebook, which is inspiring me to push the limits on seasonal fresh harvests. I’ve not come across such a practical vegetable book before- it was just the information I needed after finally getting a slightly better return this year.
Thanks for the feedback, this year has just been busy, it's a problem of my own making as I'm trying to get a few big projects out of the way before I'm 65. I'm just getting started with the book, but it's going in the right direction : All the best - Steve
Fabulous thank you 🙏🏼
Brilliant video Steve. Confirmed that I've planted some stuff at the right time and helped me not miss any opportunities- such as that late pea sowing. Thank you! Also must give a shout out for asparagus pea- really pretty, germinates without problem and a great and interesting crop.
Thank you, this is so helpful
Thanks. These planning videos are always great prompts for me to try something different or a reminder to get some seeds. Agreed on what you say about claytonia under cover. I just happened to try it in the greenhouse the first year I sowed it and have only grown it as a winter greenhouse salad crop since then along with kales and a few other leafy veg. The quality is far better, pest damage is minimised and harvesting is much more pleasurable. It's odd how many greenhouses/polytunnels I see that are pretty much empty over winter.
It's a crying shame, those people also often say they have no money to invest in their allotments. I grow about £1000 in veg over winter and it more than pays for everything else I spend all year : All the best - Steve
Another great update Steve,
I might try some of those Spring onions varieties as I just planted some Ikishurra.
I started using wool around my lettice and so far I'm not seeing any slug damage
And wondered if you've ever used it and if so could it help keep plants warmer over winter in a cold frame.
All the best Ian.
Hi Ian, my slug problems are manageable now after 7 years of doing battle with them, so I've not had to use anything, apart from those free bags of strulch I tried out - which worked . I've never seen any reason to keep the soil warmer, wool might even be counter productive, the dark compost absorbs heat from the sun during the day and releases it to the plants at night, the white wool would probably reflect the heat out of the bed during the day : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards The white wool could be counter productive like you say being white
So I'm only using it with my lettice and leafy veg.Thanks for the input Steve.
All the best Ian.
Hi steve,great growing knowledge ,but csn you tell me were uou get your seeds from and best place to find them.
If you look in the description of the video you will see two links to July and August, click these, click the veg you are interested in and scroll down a little and you will see photos of the seed packets I am using : All the best - Steve
How do you guys eat miners lettuce? Just the leaves or do you eat the stems too? I tried it last year but they had a very long stem and I didn't know what to do with that part. The chickens loved the whole thing though.
The stems and the leaves, the stems are great
@@SteveRichards Thank you, I guess I will try it again this year! 👍
Wil you be direct sowing your lettuce or grow them in modules first?
I only really direct seed parsnips and carrots, modules are essential if you do a lot of successions : all the best - Steve
How about the Senshyu onion seeds. They worked out fine one year. How do you rate them Steve? I'm finding the Toughball expensive seeds.
I've not has as good experience with them Lynn, my Toughball were £2 for a 100, not the cheapest but you pay for reliability, which is high if you get your dates right : All the best - Steve
Sorry for my ignorance but are Tough all going to be seeds and not sets Steve. I was going to give up on sets and seeds until February. They have all been a bit small or gone to seed. I will definitely put in Pink Panther sets in Feb though as they came out so healthy and huge...the biggest I've grown. They boosted my confidence. I might have a go at over wintering again as we have made a bit more space with our re-vamped polytunnel and could have a space with the kales maybe.
90% of my onions are from seed, sometimes people send me sets and I try them out, but I rarely bother with them over winter. I try not to grow big bulb myself as we can't get through a big onion in a day : All the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards the Toughball are far more expensively on Amazon.
I did find the couple of huge Pink Panther I harvested to be tricky to use this time of year but they keep well when halved. I used the green tops in salad and half the bulb in a tomato sauce and a salsa. I would usually make batches of soup/casserole base with onion, carrot and celery with bone broth and freeze it for a quick meal to add fresh ingredients too... I still cook for a cafe..lol
Some of those seeds on Amazon are a con, crazy prices, but I see that all the time now, these companies charging 10 times the real cost in the hope that they can con a few people into buying them. These are more reasonable
amzn.to/3ptLZ3o
@@SteveRichards brilliant, thank you, I bought those 😍