July Sowing | Seeds to sow in July | Second Spring | Keep Sowing | Green Side Up

[Music] hello everybody i'm steve and welcome to green side up down on the plot again today and it's today is what i consider to be the second spring uh we've got lots of crops in lots of crops growing away and heading for a harvest but it's now that you need to be thinking of your next harvest and the plants that you're going to plant when the current plants are finished and come out just so you don't have bare soil and for me also i'm also thinking forward for what crops i want to grow in the polytunnels over winter so that's always at the back of my mind and it's quite a hard one to judge um some years i get it right some years i get it wrong but every year i try and make things better so we're going to have a quick look and and then we'll get on with sowing some seeds that i think i need to get going now so we're going to have a quick look so very quickly down here on the beds i've got multi-stone leeks they will stay in through winter i've got some calling pisa so those plants are those here today and the beans i've got garlic mixed with onions in here the garlic will be coming out very soon which will leave a space and some of these onions will also be following on very soon and coming out more garlic here and a bit more garlic here and onion too and again a lot of this will be coming out and we'll need replacing with plants so what i have got is i have got a small amount of plants here there's another tray of beetroot on there quite far on them and some spring onions and another tray beetroot so they should help to fill the spices that i've got i've got some broccoli somewhere as well that's ready to go out um i can't seem to find them in a minute but they're around here somewhere so they'll go out but i'm all set up here now to do a little bit of sewing and to explain what i'm doing as i'm going along so i'll get you all set up with the camera and then we'll crack on with that right so what i have got we've got some extra plants here that i sowed a few weeks ago and it's a couple of winter cabbage and the rest of those are kales so they're great whole fillers kales and they're a great um through the winter for green leaves which you know we all want during that winter period you want fresh stuff and it will just stand all winter long and i grow a mix of it all around the plot and form around my tunnels and this year it'll be around three tunnels so they all need potting on and of a couple of other brassicas to sew namely these two which are uh spring cabbage i want to get them started so they'll go into another tray over the next day or two but what i'm gonna sew now right on camera is these are dwarf french beans these are a great pop um i feel for in the polytunnel because they grow on so quick easy to grow and they don't take too much looking after you don't need to be staking them i do sometimes put some fencing up for them to grow against just a little bit of support but otherwise i don't don't really need to fuss with them too much as you can probably see or some of you will have noticed i'm growing them in the container-wise modules trays that i bought earlier this year um and i'm just putting one or two seeds in each i'm not being that fussy or picky really and they just need pressed in more compost on top watered and let them get on with it and they'll do it do it all for me later on when there's a space in the polytunnel one of the tunnels somewhere they'll go in and we'll get a late autumn harvest hopefully so that's that first one dwarf french beans definitely recommend you sewing and growing those so that's the first first one next lot we've got more beetroots again don't underestimate beerus it's a fantastic crop you know you can roast it or or boil it or make chutney or pickle from it it's just to be without it i think is like cutting your hand off you've got to have it and it stores well and i'll be doing a better storage video for the winter later on in this year and how we store it over the winter again i'm sewing two varieties in boltardi and the burpees golden and again the multi-soldering modules i mean i'm trying to get two or three in each cell but it's more like five or seven but it matters not you just pick them out when you need them this is just to keep the continuation going i will be selling more later on more beetroot but i'm going to try and critically time them because over the winter this last year i had some beetroot growing in the polytunnel and they very nearly i very nearly had the timings right to be able to get bulbs out in sort of february march and if i can if i can crack out that'll be fantastic because it means i won't have to store them so we'll try again this year and see if i can get that mastered i'd love to i certainly think it's doable the weather of course has got to be agreeable but if you don't try you'll never know so so that's beetroot i mean again these are standard stuff for what i call the second spring the same with this one this is an ishikura um my japanese bunching onion and i'm glad to see that the popularity of this is rising because it is such a good onion i mean the white lisbon has always been the the go-to onion for for bunching you know or spring onions but um i found this and i don't think anybody else was growing it but now it's taking off and people are using it and and that's good because it is such a good onion so that's what we'll do with them we'll multi-sew those into this tray as well so this last tray that i'm sewing is lettuce and i use this just use a little tray like this and do what i call furrow sewing when i'm just tamping out little furrows into the compost to lay a couple of lines of seed into and i'm starting off with my favorite i bought one of them uh this one is red grenoble and i tend to be very heavy-handed with lettuce i try not to be i only need half a dozen there's about 30 seed in there so that's the red grenoble and there's another one here i've been growing called rouge de eva i'll put the name up on the screen in fact i'll put all the names of all the stuff in the description very similar to red grenoble so we'll have a few of them as well oh that's light for me there's not 300 seeds in there what's going on today i haven't even got a label written now for that that's terrible rouge so that one and then the next one is also i mean that's red rouge red grenoble and this next one is also red it's a red traviso and this is a chicory now this takes some growing takes quite a long time of growing you don't pick it like salad leaves you let it let it heart up and eventually the green leaves on the outside will turn well they'll grow sort of red internally it's quite a bitter it's an acquired taste but if you fry it in a frying pan if you cut it in half fry it in a frying pan for just a couple of minutes in some butter and then put it in the oven to finish roasting it for about five minutes it's delicious you'll love it and you'll thank me for it so that's chicory red treviso well worth growing yeah and i think that's it for the the lettuce what else we've got here in the lettuce maybe there's room for one more let's do another freckles we like freckles so this is a nice green lettuce and as the name suggests it's got little black spots on it blotches like similar to freckles so that's the lettuce done [Music] at the same token while we're sewing all this salad stops to beetroot the spring onions the lettuce don't forget to keep sowing radish and so on a little row or a half row every couple of weeks just to keep the succession going again that's something else i failed i should have sown some last week and didn't so i'm a week behind on that but i'll get caught up so that's my sort of second spring sewing for the for the summer for this time of year as i say i've already got the um already have the cabbage a couple of varieties of into cabbages and i've got some kales there there's about three or four one two three four five six yeah there's four different types of kale in there and the win two types of winter cabbage and i've now got the traviso chicory as well which also borders on cabbage and some lettuces and i'll keep sewing lettuces to go into the winter and the varieties will change for winter growth and over the next couple of weeks i'll start to add some of the more chinese cabbages so i have a couple of varieties of pak choy that's a fantastic uh stir-fry cabbage and i will try and grow one bok again which is a chinese cabbage a proper sort of elongated sort of a cabbage every year i use that lose them every year i try again i've got another plan for it this year i won't give up i'll keep growing them every year until i get a crop out so but i know they are tricky so we'll keep trying on those and there are other things to add into the mix i'm going to keep sowing beet roots and the spring onions all the salad stuff so i'll keep sewing and sewing and sewing and keep them going because at the end of the day i mean a little packet of seeds like that from premier seeds cost you 99p now i've had that package for three years and every year i eat um chicory from it you know once you've eaten one chicory your vagina's worth so sow and keep sowing and if if you don't use it you can compost a whole lot so you even get the compost back as well so you're not wasting anything all you're doing is taking up taking up your time to actually do it and taking up container space which you know is going to produce plans for you anyway so there we go that's my take on it for july um there will also be a load of flowers coming as well in july i'll be sewing a lot of those so anyway but that's it well hurt me back today which is a bit of a pain in the in the um well it's a bit of a pain in the back really um hoping going home a quick shower and and an ibuprofen will will sort it out for me and won't be at the plot tomorrow back the day after but um that's it for this video look after yourselves everyone please stay safe i'll see you all very very soon take care [Music] you

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Length: 13min 54sec (834 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 29 2021