Top Tip - Successional Sowing
Try successional sowing in order to avoid having a glut and famine. It works with most vegetables, but is probably best suited to those that don’t freeze well - or at all.
I try and do it for my lettuce - just sow a dozen in an old twelve-cell plant tray every three to four weeks and alternate the varieties, so that you get both a succession of new plants and a choice.
For peas and beans two or three sowings about a month apart work well and, for other veggies, chose the varieties so that you have both early and late-maturing plants. It is twice as many seeds, but you only use half from each packet so they will last two or three years - leek and brassica seeds for instance are viable for several years.
It is good in theory, and worth a try in practice.
I try and do it for my lettuce - just sow a dozen in an old twelve-cell plant tray every three to four weeks and alternate the varieties, so that you get both a succession of new plants and a choice.
For peas and beans two or three sowings about a month apart work well and, for other veggies, chose the varieties so that you have both early and late-maturing plants. It is twice as many seeds, but you only use half from each packet so they will last two or three years - leek and brassica seeds for instance are viable for several years.
It is good in theory, and worth a try in practice.
Submitted by John, plot 16
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