Things to do in late summer:

[4pygmies]

I thought we'd got a thread like this but I can't find it :. Please feel free to add to it...

We are coming up to the time when seeds can be sown again . I am starting to sort out my seed packets and will be sowing biennials and perennials for next year. I go round the garden and see what's got ripe seed and sow that - Sweet Williams are very easy to grow from seed collected and there are many more Spring flowering plants with ripe seed now.
In the vegetable garden Onions, Peas, Kale, Beetroot, Calabrese, Spring Cabbage, Carrots are amongst the crops you can sow now. Parsley sown now will keep through the winter too. Also Potatoes grown in pots so you can give them shelter in a greenhouse come the Autumn will crop ready for Christmas.
And take semiripe cuttings now also, yesterday I took loads of Rosemary cuttings. Lots of other Herbs can be propagated this way now : Lavenders, Sages, Hyssops, any of the shrubby plants will 'take' now.
It's always good to get free plants....

[seanmckinney]

Has there been the early part of summer yet? If so I must have blinked and missed it. ;D

[Sleepy]

Jul 21, 2008 13:47:05 GMT 1 @seanmckinney said:

Has there been the early part of summer yet? If so I must have blinked and missed it. ;D

Hello Sean - great to see you

It has been a ruddy cool first half to this summer.

[4pygmies]

We've had some fine summer weather over here actually....lots of sun, lots of blue skies but it has rained rather a lot too...I know this cos the grass is still green! I quite like this sort of summer personally but I know I am not as other people when it comes to this sort of thing.. .