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Seed Packets

Richard Bell’s Wild West Yorkshire nature diary Friday, 15th August 2008

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AS WE HARVEST beans, onions and potatoes, a lot of space is becoming available so it’s time to think about what we’ve still got time to plant. Until the ground is weeded and dug over we’ll refrain from buying ready-grown vegetable seedlings from the garden centre. If we don’t get them in straight away they tend to hang around, like the Brussels sprouts that have been waiting on the patio in their tray for so long that their leaves are turning pink with mineral deficiency.

Of the seeds, there are plenty of salad leaves of various kinds that we could potentially keep going through the winter. Japanese onion sets and an overwintering variety of broad bean, such as Aquadulce or the Sutton, are also on our list.