Barren garden?

They will (should) pick up. I have to say though that they are too close together. I’d be looking to have them at least 15” apart.

 

They give u so many seeds and they are so small I don’t know how it’s possible to plant one seed far from the other. You’d need a massive patch to do that wouldn’t you? How should I have planted them? This isn’t just with cabbages, beetroot too, just planted out a load of small plants but whether they’ll grow or not I don’t kniw.

 

Ok, let me run you through how I do it. Firstly, I sow thinly in a pot, definitely not the whole packet. Once they’re up, I individually pot them into 3” pots. Once they’re big enough (maybe 4-6” tall) I plant them out, at least 15” apart, depending on variety. Yours (planted out) are too close together. They also look as though they could have been planted deeper. I think it unlikely they’ll develop as much as you’d like, but you should get something.

 

Thanks Freddy! I’ll do that in future.

 

Veggies and flowers should have a succession of sowing to ensure crops or flowers throughout the season.

 

Yes that makes sense. I’ve now started to be a bit more economical with the sowings!

 

I am the only one who likes Radishes, thus I sow mine into a pot and then more pots if needed.
All depends how many I can eat and whether the doctor says TOO MUCH SALT. lol I dip them in salt to give a salt and pepper flavour.

 

Those big black Russian Radishes go well in mix veggie stews.

 

Hi there, FWIW I definitely think that if you're new to gardening it's hard to understand what they mean on the back of these seed packets when they say: 'thin out to Xcm' You feel like you've just planted all this stuff and now you've to haul them out the ground?! Anyway, I found that once you get the knack of that and the 'succession of sowing', life becomes a lot better. With rocket and coriander (Which are the ones I use the most), I just put a repeating event in my calendar for every few weeks throughout the summer - that seems to work for me and once the rows get too big I just pull them out... but that's easy to do when you've got a new line just coming through