EP186- What To Sow In The Month Of August In The Vegetable Garden

In this weeks episode of Master My Garden podcast John looks at what to sow in the August vegetable garden.

August is generally is a month great harvests in our vegetable gardens. Great harvest means bare space when crops like onions, potatoes, garlic , cabbage, cauliflower etc come out. It is important to get these bare spaces filled back in with new crops for the Autumn and beyond.

When it comes to what we can sow in August the variety of seeds that we can actually sow is reducing dramatically month to month from a peak in May to almost nothing past September.
 
So what vegetables can we sow in August?

Direct sowing outside: ( all last sowing early in the month)  

• Spinach 
• Radish 
• Spring onion 
• Milan Purple Top/Snowball

Sowing in modules for planting outside:  

• Lettuce 
• Chard 
• Spring Cabbage
• Kale
• Pak Choi (better under cover of cloche) 
• Claytona (better under cover of cloche) 
• Mizuna (better under cover of cloche) 
• Tatsoi (better under cover of cloche) 
• Mustard (better under cover of cloche) 

Sowing In modules for planting inside: 

• Spinach 
• Spring onion 
• Lettuce 
• Pak Choi
• Claytona 
• Mizuna  
• Tatsoi  
• Mustard  

Direct sowing inside: 

• Radish 
• Milan Purple Top/Snowball
• Spring onion 
• Rocket
• Spring Onion

If you do have bare ground and you don't plan on continuing to plant veg be sure to cover it with green manures to keep soil covered over winter.

Christmas potatoes can also be sown now this are generally first early varieties planted now to have new potatoes for Christmas dinner. I personally don't do this but if you want to you can get seed now in garden centres it must be seed harvested from the previous year which has gone through a period of dormancy.

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