Your salad onions look amazing, your crown prince have done well this year. I need to do a big plant out and a clear out today if the weather hold outs
I just removed my Cobra F1 beans in the polytunnel two days ago & the late, flat variety from Real Seeds called 'Lazy Housewife' is just coming on, with 1.5kg off a 1.5m row today. Ate plateful steamed with butter - great flavour & took six minutes steaming at most.
Hi Steve, really good video! Do you pop those pots straight into the fridge once done? Can you freeze any of them or not really? Also what seeds are you planting at the moment? Is it too late for spring onions from seed now?
Hi Jenny, the pots of apple sauce don’t need freezing, they are fine in a dark cupboard. Here’s my sowing guide for September: What I'm sowing in September ~ the most important month of the year, for me anyway! th-cam.com/video/r4T9RCUPbdo/w-d-xo.html much more info in my free newsletter Steverichards.substack.com too late for salad onions to grow outside now, they will be too weak for winter weather, but ok under cover : all the best - Steve
Great video. Thank you. I am struggling to find space for my winter veg young plats at the moment, I have rather full beds still. Hoping to get them out soon. I have a lot of seedlings coming on too. One thing I lso am short of is lettuce too. I have some that should b ready soon, but not quite there yet. I have bulked my green salads with american land cress, baby leaf spinach and baby beetroot leaves. I am really looking forward tothe lambs lettuce later in the season- really love it and the golden purslane. I find y=the purslane very slow growing-is that usual for this crop? Happy gardening 🙂
Golden purslane is finishing now, at least mine is, it's set seed and so it's not growing. My salads are full of baby spinach, beet and chard leaves too. The baby chard and beet leaves are a first for me, I might do more of them over winter : All the best - Steve
Hi Steve, Did you get aphid or slug damage much on your cabbage , growing onions either side, think of doing that ,as my cabbage got mullard by caterpillars and slugs ?
The onions went in much later, you don’t get many issues with red cabbages sown in September, as they are big established plants before the slugs wake up and definitely before the cabbage whites arrive
@@SteveRichards sorry Steve the reason I asked, my cabbages and collies get ravaged , and I see they don’t attack onions so I thought if I seed cabbages , collies with onions they might leave em alone , your cabbages look great
Hi Steve, thanks for the video. I’m always inspired and re-motivated after watching your posts. How many Crown Prince did you get per plant? I just got one ripe per plant this year with a couple of very immature fruits. 🎃 🎃 🎃
Hi Steve -- this may be a silly question, but how do you get the cabbages on such tall stems ? is it a certain variety? or is it just by pulling off the outer leaves as they grow? That might help me with the slug damage. Thank you.
I really hope thats not allium leaf miner, Steve. Speaking from experience, its a terrible pest. Have you cut open any affected leeks to see if theres grubs or the tell tale brown pupae?
@@SteveRichards oh no! Sorry to hear its reached you. Could it be leek moth, or is it definitely leaf miner? Are you getting any curly growth on any of your alliums? Leaf miners are headless grubs, leak moth are more like caterpillars. I'm sure you know this already, im just hoping its not leaf miner.
@@AliW-xu4lv it was only on 3 leeks so far, but it looked very like leaf miner larvae. Beet leaf miner has been terrible this year too and club root has arrived in the kitchen garden somehow, gardening is becoming ever more challenging
@@SteveRichards oh I'm very sorry to hear that. Beet leaf miner has been conspicuous in its absence here this year. Was terrible last year. Cabbage aphid also not really been an issue after a terrible year last year. The allium leaf miner is by far my worst pest. I had to burn all my leeks last year. My garlic was affected too but I stripped it back and broke up the cloves to get rid of the grubs, which thankfully hadn't chewed into the cloves. I think rotation and enviromesh is the only solution, sadly, because I dint have many options for proper rotation. I've netted my leeks and they look OK so far, fingers crossed.
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Everything looks very lush I agree you can never have too many spring onions ❤
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Your salad onions look amazing, your crown prince have done well this year. I need to do a big plant out and a clear out today if the weather hold outs
I just removed my Cobra F1 beans in the polytunnel two days ago & the late, flat variety from Real Seeds called 'Lazy Housewife' is just coming on, with 1.5kg off a 1.5m row today. Ate plateful steamed with butter - great flavour & took six minutes steaming at most.
That’s great, I’ve not had much luck with late beans in October
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Hi Steve, really good video! Do you pop those pots straight into the fridge once done? Can you freeze any of them or not really? Also what seeds are you planting at the moment? Is it too late for spring onions from seed now?
Hi Jenny, the pots of apple sauce don’t need freezing, they are fine in a dark cupboard. Here’s my sowing guide for September: What I'm sowing in September ~ the most important month of the year, for me anyway!
th-cam.com/video/r4T9RCUPbdo/w-d-xo.html much more info in my free newsletter Steverichards.substack.com too late for salad onions to grow outside now, they will be too weak for winter weather, but ok under cover : all the best - Steve
Great video. Thank you. I am struggling to find space for my winter veg young plats at the moment, I have rather full beds still. Hoping to get them out soon. I have a lot of seedlings coming on too. One thing I lso am short of is lettuce too. I have some that should b ready soon, but not quite there yet. I have bulked my green salads with american land cress, baby leaf spinach and baby beetroot leaves. I am really looking forward tothe lambs lettuce later in the season- really love it and the golden purslane. I find y=the purslane very slow growing-is that usual for this crop? Happy gardening 🙂
Golden purslane is finishing now, at least mine is, it's set seed and so it's not growing. My salads are full of baby spinach, beet and chard leaves too. The baby chard and beet leaves are a first for me, I might do more of them over winter : All the best - Steve
One of the reasons that I like to grow melons is the timing, they are always finished in time for my autumn crops to go in, also potatoes
@@SteveRichards I don't have much success with melons 😞
Hi Steve, Did you get aphid or slug damage much on your cabbage , growing onions either side, think of doing that ,as my cabbage got mullard by caterpillars and slugs ?
The onions went in much later, you don’t get many issues with red cabbages sown in September, as they are big established plants before the slugs wake up and definitely before the cabbage whites arrive
@@SteveRichards sorry Steve the reason I asked, my cabbages and collies get ravaged , and I see they don’t attack onions so I thought if I seed cabbages , collies with onions they might leave em alone , your cabbages look great
No I don’t think onions deter slugs, they will just glide straight past to your cabbages
@@SteveRichards Thank you, Steve appreciate your answers, oh well back to the drawing room😀
Hi Steve, thanks for the video. I’m always inspired and re-motivated after watching your posts. How many Crown Prince did you get per plant? I just got one ripe per plant this year with a couple of very immature fruits. 🎃 🎃 🎃
Same for me, I never get more than two because the plants grow in a 6” strip, so I can’t improve the soil : all the best - Steve
@@SteveRichards Many thanks, good to know it's not just me
Hi Steve -- this may be a silly question, but how do you get the cabbages on such tall stems ? is it a certain variety? or is it just by pulling off the outer leaves as they grow? That might help me with the slug damage. Thank you.
You sow in September and plant in February and the low light levels draws the plants towards the light.
@@SteveRichards Thank you!
I really hope thats not allium leaf miner, Steve. Speaking from experience, its a terrible pest. Have you cut open any affected leeks to see if theres grubs or the tell tale brown pupae?
I have and there were grubs
@@SteveRichards oh no! Sorry to hear its reached you. Could it be leek moth, or is it definitely leaf miner? Are you getting any curly growth on any of your alliums? Leaf miners are headless grubs, leak moth are more like caterpillars. I'm sure you know this already, im just hoping its not leaf miner.
@@AliW-xu4lv it was only on 3 leeks so far, but it looked very like leaf miner larvae. Beet leaf miner has been terrible this year too and club root has arrived in the kitchen garden somehow, gardening is becoming ever more challenging
@@SteveRichards oh I'm very sorry to hear that. Beet leaf miner has been conspicuous in its absence here this year. Was terrible last year. Cabbage aphid also not really been an issue after a terrible year last year. The allium leaf miner is by far my worst pest. I had to burn all my leeks last year. My garlic was affected too but I stripped it back and broke up the cloves to get rid of the grubs, which thankfully hadn't chewed into the cloves. I think rotation and enviromesh is the only solution, sadly, because I dint have many options for proper rotation. I've netted my leeks and they look OK so far, fingers crossed.