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Seeds to sow now?

debs64debs64 Posts: 4,923
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Hi all had mixed success with my seeds in spring and I never usually sow any other time usually but fancied having another go so any suggestions for seeds to sow now and overwinter in an unheated greenhouse for next year? Any I can be harvesting now or buying? Suggestions please 
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  • HazybHazyb Posts: 336
    I have sown Foxgloves, Wallflowers and Hesperis.
  • LynLyn Posts: 21,996
    I’ve just sown Coriander, they’re up already. I’ve got foxgloves, Clematis, penstemon, Turks head lily and white hellebore.  I will sow those at the weekend. In August I will sow cabbage seeds for growing in the greenhouse when the tomatoes have finished.  I may sow some pansies and violas at the end of September but as I’m supposed to be cutting down, I may rethink. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Bright starBright star Posts: 1,152
    Same as Hazyb along with  some verbascum “ Flush of White” and Sweet Williams.
    Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  • HazybHazyb Posts: 336
    Are Verbascum easy from seed @Bright star ?  I have never had them. 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 6,657
    If you want veg to sow now, oriental greens like mizuna and pak choi, radishes, spinach, leaf beet and chard, small nantes type carrots can all be sown now and harvested during autumn, right up to first frosts. Mizuna stands a light frost, chard will keep going til spring, although it will stop growing when it gets really cold
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first” 
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,223
    I’ve sown some aquilegias from collected seeds. I will plant them out in autumn, if I have any success that is. I know they’re likely to be different, but this is the parent plant. I can send you some seeds if you would like.


  • LynLyn Posts: 21,996
    @pitter-patter I would like some seeds of those please. I will pm my address.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,223
    I still have the address, @Lyn. Will post them soon.
  • Bright starBright star Posts: 1,152
    @Hazyb, I sowed these on 21st June and they are just starting to grow more strongly. Very small seedlings but not as tiny as the antirrhinum seedlings are. They are in a 7cm pot.


    Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

  • HazybHazyb Posts: 336
    Thanks @Bright star I think I will try sowing some :)
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