Week 20 Vegetable Garden Maintenance

Posted on 26. Aug, 2007 by Tracey in Veg Plot

There comes a time in every vegetable gardens life where it needs a new look for the autumn months. This weekend was maintenance weekend, where out with the old and no longer needed and in with the newly sown seeds.

So I had to be brutal and out went my Chard Bright Lights and Perpetual Spinach because they were taking up precious autumn sowing space. I harvested the final spring greens from my Frostie Cabbages and then mulched Plot 2 with the spent compost from my potato containers. I raked to a fine till and then sowed 2 rows of Spring Hero Cabbages (to harvest April) and 4 rows of Advantage Cabbage (for all year round spring greens).

Plot 1 – My Chicory, Mini Leeks and Carrots are eight weeks into their new growth so it was time to add yes more carrots, another two rows as I want to harvest these in throughout the winter.

Also sown in Plot 1 were Pak Choi, Turnips and in filled the gaps in the chicory with radishes.

Plot 3 – My beans are going bananas and still producing a high enough yield for me to charge my work colleagues 50p per bundle of fresh organic beans, the 3 bundles sold pays for the next packet of seeds!

Removed the dwarf bean plants and mulched again with compost. Raked and sowed Lambs Lettuce (2 rows), 1 row of Radishes, Pak Choi (just in case the slugs get it in Plot 1) and Lettuce.

Xmas Potatoes have gone in – Variety Maris Peer, 3 buckets worth. Done.

Click here for my new Plot Plan August 2007.
Plot Plan August 2007