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Challenge Brassica – Part 6 – Kale & Cauliflowers Harvest
I actually prefer growing Brassica’s during the Autumn and Winter. It’s so much easier with no caterpillars and no whitefly pests to deal with. It’s as easy as planting out, leaving them to grow and checking for cauliflowers every month or so. Let’s find out how the Brassica Raised Beds have been doing since October,…
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Challenge Brassica – Part 3 – Planting & Spacings for Brassica’s
It’s Planting time, here comes the fun bit. First things first, we need to check the spacing on the types of Brassica we are growing to check they have plenty of room to grow sideways and not bump into another plant. If your plants touch, then air doesn’t flow which means your plant could be…
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Sow, Grow & Harvest in September 2024 – Timeline
September 2024 Weather Daylight Hours in September in UK: 11 Hours and 39 minutes. Find out your daylight hours by Town in the UK. Weather in September 24: Very Mild with temperatures approx 20 degrees centigrade for the first few weeks, with thunderstorms and rain in the third week. Temperatures taking a tumble in the…
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Challenge Brassica – Part 2 – Soil Replenishing & The No Dig Method
It’s hard to believe but Cabbage, Cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale and kohl Rabi all belong to the same family ‘Brassica Oleracea’. This means Wild Cabbage. Brassica’s are all leaves (apart from cauliflowers) and they need nitrogen in the soil and lots of it to form those rich in nutrients green leaves. These green leaves are…
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Challenge Brassica – Part 1 – What’s The Challenge?
I think we ALL might have had enough of the Cabbage White Butterflies and/or caterpillars this year, decimating our brassica plants, but no, not me, nope, I’m nurturing a whole bunch of new brassica plug plants in the greenhouse. I love a challenge! You may think your plug plants are safe in the greenhouse, but…
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Vegetables To Sow & Plant in September
In the UK, September seems to be a mixture of a last minute Indian summer and autumn trying to push in as well. There’s still a few things you can sow and plant in September. By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” –…
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Vegetables to Sow & Plant for Autumn & Winter
In August, your vegetable beds are packed with growing vegetables and the harvest season is here. You finally feel like you can take your foot off the accelerator pedal and enjoy the fruits and vegetables of your hard labour and the summer, now it has arrived. However if you do a little bit of planning…
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Vegetable Garden Update – January – Cauliflower, Kale, Fennel, Spring Cabbage, Carrots.
The Weather Like every good gardener, I like to talk about the weather and keep up to date what it’s going to do next. If you are on X / Twitter social media and live in London or the Southeast of England, UK, follow Daniel or The Snow Dreamer as he gets the weather right.…
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Vegetable Garden Update – January – Cauliflower, Kale, Fennel, Cabbage, Carrots.
The Weather Like every good gardener, I like to talk about the weather and keep up to date what it’s going to do next. The usual weather in the UK in January is cold, frost with periods of rain. We have had rather a mix of lots of rain, a few storms, high winds, a…
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Seeds to Sow in Now and August for a Autumn and Winter Harvest
As we are enjoying the vegetable garden in all its glory, I sometimes forget what happens next and miss the time to sow the Autumn and Winter vegetables. Not this year! I’ve decided what I am sowing and here’s my list, I’ll be sowing these seeds at the end of July and in August. Autumn…
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