Grant Douglas's Garden Diary

Week 37: Third week of September

(no commentary, same list as last week) Sowing or Planting this week:

Tomatoes, Peppers, Chillis, Egg Plant (for Greenhouse or early sheltered Outside)
Basil (for Greenhouse or Windowsill)
Beetroot - possibly too early for direct sowing but can be sown in containers for planting out shortly.
Broad Beans (I am trying a new variety for me this year called Imperial Green, where the beans stay green, even after cooking) Standard Variety - Exhibition Longpod - Getting quite late.
Brocolli Spouting (Marathon Variety - sow now in punnets)
Cabbage (Spring or Summer varieties - sow now in punnets)
Cauliflower (Frieda - Summer variety - sow now in punnets)
Cucumbers (I choose Early Perfection for a Telegraph Cucumber and Tasty Green, for a long slim one)
Garlic (Getting fairly late)
Lettuce (Loose-leaf Fancy and Hearting (Webbs or Greatlakes)
Onions (for early areas)
Peas (I choose Easy-peasy variety)
Potatoes (for those in warm areas get a second succession sprouting, for those in colders area, get your first sowing sprouting)
Red Onions
Shallots
Silverbeet and Perpetual Spinach - these may go to seed in late Spring but will give you a small harvest if you are low on these veges in your garden
Snow Peas (Snap Peas)
Spinach (winter varieties eg. Hybrid No.7) - outside in warm areas, in punnets in colder areas
Zuchini (there are a large number of varieties and colours, plus Scollopinis which are a similar flavour, but are flat flying-saucer shape) I choose Blackjack as a consistent dark green tasty fruit.

Sow Direct: (In colder areas, under a cloche - protect soil surface from heavy rains)

Carrots (I find Topweight a good early variety)
Chinese Greens
Corn Salad
Corriander/Dill (Marginal)
Mescalin Mix
Rocket
Radish
Spring Onions

Happy Gardening. This week I'll sign off the way the Country Life Team did on the radio on Saturday with "Keep the gumboots close and stay positive".

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