Later season seed sowings

Kim Stoddart explains which vegetable seed can still be sown this month for longer lasting harvests ...

- Kim Stoddart

It’s important to enjoy our vegetable gardens to the maximum. They should be abundant and enjoyable havens in which to grow food and nurture ourselves away from the craziness and costliness of the world. Yet all too often we get ourselves in a frenzy of seed sowing and planting early in the year only to then stop… Instead filling our time with weeding, back-and-forth watering, feeding, produce picking and general all-purpose worrying over what on earth to do with the multifarious gluts we now have at our disposal. Spiralized courgette anyone?

All too often gardeners feel guilt. I see it time and time again on the courses I run.

We are familiar with the slow food movement, but I believe there needs to be a slower gardening momentum which puts wellbeing, wildlife and lower work generation centre stage. Honestly, it really doesn’t have to be this time consuming, not if we pace ourselves throughout the season, take time to enjoy our vegetable gardens and look beyond the summer surplus.