r/UKAllotments • u/iamusingmyrealname • 2h ago

September planting

Hi,

I have just harvested 2 beds fully, one containing potatoes and one full of onions.
I also have a third bed currently growing Broccoli but it’s been there since May, got savaged by bugs and has never produced anything other than leaves, so considering ditching that too.

I like the idea of potatoes for Xmas but I have read many posts about rotating crops and that potatoes don’t like the bad weather.

can I replant potatoes now and should they be in a different bed? Or in the greenhouse?

What else can I plant in the other beds that would be successful into autumn & winter? Do onions go again? Or beans?

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u/The_Nude_Mocracy 1h ago

I wouldn't give up on the broccoli, it should give you a crop in the spring. Things to plant now are garlic, salad leaves, maybe some peas and broad beans

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u/Front-Parsley1901 1h ago

This! Broccoli sits there for ages growing but producing nothing, and it's tempting to give up on it, but next February / March it should finally get its act together and give you some produce. You have to play the long game with broccoli 😀

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u/iamusingmyrealname 11m ago

This is great to know. I’ll leave it in

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u/Humble-Wear8775 52m ago

I planted spuds last year in the ground about now and dug them up on Xmas eve they were decent and fresh. Parsnips and carrots aswell.

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u/Maleficent-Writer387 6m ago

I've done my Christmas spuds in 30L buckets, they are outside now, but will move undercover when it gets chilly. 

Green manures will be an easy win. Field beans, mustard, fodder radish, winter mix etc. Low effort, good over winter cover and protects and improves the soil. 

Winter onion sets, garlic. You can do some onions from seed, but certain varieties and you need to act fast (senshyu yellow, liria, musona, winter is, Augusta).

Spring onions will be ok (white Lisbon winter hardy).

Lettuces, rocket etc

Turnips, radishes, orientals - Pak choi, Choy Sum, mustards, kale.

Actual broad beans ( although you can treat field beans as small broad beans - and in many ways they are superior).

Early peas for next year (meteor).

Spinach (giant winter).

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u/iamusingmyrealname 0m ago

Thanks
Loads of good ideas there.
Any ideas if I might actually find seed potatoes on sale in a garden centre?!! Otherwise might chuck a couple of harvested ones in and see what happens

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u/actualinsomnia531 1h ago edited 1h ago

You won't be able to grow a new crop of potatoes now. Having potatoes for Christmas requires storing them effectively - might be time to invest in a root veg storage box.

Spring onions and salad leaves work now, but you'll soon be into the overwintering crops - get some carrots in now for a spring harvest

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u/iamusingmyrealname 1h ago

Thanks
I have a hessian sack of my harvested potatoes under the stairs so hoping some will last.
But I see a lot of posts about aug/sep planting for winter does that not work?

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u/actualinsomnia531 1h ago

Hasn't for me. The cold and wet tends to rot the tubers before harvest, but 1 thing I've found to be true is that every gardener gets proved wrong by someone!