Discover winter salads to grow. Buy mizuna seeds from Waitrose Garden. Buy mibuna seeds on Amazon. Sowing broad beans in autumn means plants can establish over winter and crop earlier next spring. Buy broad bean seeds from Suttons. Turnips are another fast-growing crop that can be sown on bare soil in September — they do best in cool, moist conditions. Harvest as golf-ball sized, baby veg in around six weeks. Perfect for the Christmas table. Buy turnip seeds from Dobies. Planting onion sets in autumn means you will get an earlier crop next year.
Garlic can be sown any time between now and spring. Find out how to grow onions, shallots and garlic. Buy onion sets for autumn planting from Suttons.
Buy garlic sets from Suttons. Want to find out more about growing root vegetables? Find out all about how to grow carrots with our helpful hints. Spinach should definitely be on your to-do list for essential vegetables to plant in September.
If you want to learn how to grow spinach at this time of year, choose a hardy cultivar and select a sunny spot, and you can reap the rewards well into winter. If you harvest regularly, it may even last you up until the early spring.
Direct-sow in a drill 1in 2. If sowing multiple rows, space 1ft 30cm apart. Water, then cover lightly with soil. Thin to in cm apart. Then just keep well watered. You can also sow seeds thinly in large containers. In hot spells, make sure the plants benefit from some shade.
Around six weeks later, harvest every alternate plant. Cut back to just above the base of the plant to encourage more leaves. Winter cultivars may need protection from October — cover with cloches and protect with straw.
Watch out for spinach downy mildew, which makes the leaves unappetizing. Prevent this with good plant spacing to improve air circulation, and by watering at the base of the plants. Look out for autumn-sown varieties that have thicker leaves and are less inclined to bolt. It produces excellent yields from multiple side-shoots and is happy to grow through winter with protection in a greenhouse or cold frame. Legend has it that liquefying fresh spinach is the best way to consume spinach — it releases beta-carotene stored in the leaves so your body can absorb the nutrients easier.
Start some cilantro now and cultivate an easy-to-grow oriental charmer with real staying power. Cilantro's fresh piquancy and healing properties make it an obvious entry in our list of essential growing go-tos for September. It's easy to learn how to grow cilantro also known as coriander and it can be started from seeds in pots. Alternatively, sow direct and protect seedlings under cloches in well-drained soil. Sow thinly in the ground or multi-celled trays or pots and cover lightly. They germinate at around seven days.
Make direct sowings 1cm deep in rows 12in 30cm apart. Otherwise, cilantro is easy to grow and can be harvested at in cm tall and used on a cut-and-come-again basis. If you want to store seeds, leave a few plants to flower, let them develop seeds.
Pick when ripe, before they fall to the ground. Place seed heads in a bag and hang upside down to dry, shake loose and store in an airtight container. This is said to be based on the fact that the smell given off by bruised coriander is similar to the bug in question!
Pak Choi 'Chinese Cabbage Red' develops lush reddish purple tones that get deeper in the cold. Plump, nutritious, thick stemmed and fast-growing, pak choi is one of the essential vegetables to plant in September.
Not only is it loaded with vitamin A and C, but it is well suited to shorter autumn days and its fat leaves make the most of what natural light is available. As temperatures fade later in the month, cover the rows with a cloche, which will also prevent the foliage turning leathery.
Pak choi does not like root disturbance and is best sown in situ rather than being transplanted. Sow three or four seeds at 12in 30cm spacing, then thin to the strongest seedling.
Keep well watered to avoid bolting. Watch out for holes in leaves, which could be a sign of flea beetles. Avoid this by growing plants under a fleece. Powdery mildew is another risk, but can be avoided by growing in cool locations. Harvest in as little as 30 days up to mid-November. There are towers made of bok choy in Singapore, thanks to vertical farming, popular with commercial growers in Singapore. One of their big successes is the bok choy towers, stacked at feet-high.
Are you a fan of chunky crops that are packed with flavor? Read our helpful tips on how to grow leeks to find out more. Light, crunchy and full of flavor, pea shoots like these Anubis from Suttons are probably the easiest crop you can grow in September. Delicate and tender yet bursting with flavor and nutrients, pea shoots are a top crop to start now and shoots are ready in weeks. Content in a cold frame or greenhouse, they are quick to grow and make a perfect vegetable to plant in September.
They are a great choice for the best vegetables to grow in raised beds as space becomes available. Grow outdoors in fertile, well-drained soil, sowing seeds an inch cm apart. Make sowings 1in cm deep. If you use containers, make them big — grow bags and larger trays are ideal. Place in a well-lit spot but avoid direct sunlight, and keep moist. Harvest with scissors an inch above compost level when plants are 6in 15cm tall.
Cut in clumps, allowing a reasonable amount of the plant to regrow. Perfect for that tasty vitamin boost! And great news for gardeners is that we can have cabbage all year round, including spring if we get the ball rolling in autumn. There are three simple secrets to success with winter container growing: choosing the right crops to grow; sowing the seeds earlier enough now for many of them ; and protecting your crops from the wind as much as you can. I urge you to give it a go.
It has other benefits too: by growing you are helping to maintain a living soil in your pots — neglected pots are prone to dry out and can be hard to re-wet. So what can you grow? A few herbs will grow well, too. Here are nine I recommend:. Bright and beautiful in the container — and productive, tasty and versatile in the kitchen.
Sow it by mid September at the latest and let the plants grow and get well established before it gets cold. You can start picking the outer leaves sparingly from mid November. This has a pleasing, slightly succulent texture and is rich in vitamin C. It grows well in the cold but less well in the wind — try and put it in a sheltered spot if you can. A strong, peppery leaf, reminiscent of watercress. Adding just a few leaves to a salad of shop bought lettuce will transform it into something really tasty.
Sow it by mid September. A variety of kale with leaves that look like tall plumes. It can make an impressive statement in your containers; give it a deepish pot at least 20cm and plenty of space just two or three plants in a 40cm x 40cm container if you want it to grow to a decent size. Ideally it is best sown in July to give it time to grow into a good size plant, but you still have just enough time to sow it now, particularly if you are in the south of the UK.
This is a delicious leaf cooked or in salads — and like other kales has a reputation as a superfood too. It tastes even better after a hard frost.
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