What to grow now?

Hey peeps. Got my greenhouse up this weekend and now I'm wondering what to sow.
A lot of things seem to need sowing earlier on in the year?
Any ideas fruit or flowers? Maybe herbs?



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What are you wanted to get out of your greenhouse?

"Crops", "Flowers" or "Propagation" perhaps? Maybe all three

You could perhaps (I haven't thought through whether the season is "right") plant some bulbs in pots to bring into the house when they are in flower - Freesias maybe.

Plenty of shrubs etc. that you could propagate now from cuttings (although greenhouse may be a bit hot for them, but if you did them in pots, covered with plastic bag, on a North or East facing window then in a month's time, when they had rooted, they could be potted up and grow on in greenhouse through the Autumn and Winter.

For over winter crops perhaps Lambs Lettuce - I find that very slow to get under way, so a sowing now / soon would probably be about right. I think of 1st August as being the time for that. Spuds in bags for New Potatoes at XMas. We grow Swiss Chard / Leaf Beat in the greenhouse for an over winter crop, or more correctly for a Spring crop in the Hungry Gap. I've always found Winter Lettuce was a disappointing crop, so I don't bother any more, but it might work for you.

For anything that you should have sown, from seed, 6 - 8 weeks ago then looking for plants in the garden centre now would gain you that 6 - 8 weeks back again.

 

Rosemary and Thyme both like warmth to germinate.

 

Well I will be using it for propagation, flowers, some herbs, fruit and maybe some veg.
Is it possible to grow exotic fruits in it, maybe if it was heated?


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I have a huge rosemary tree/bush and thyme already in the garden. I want coriander growing as I use it almost every day for my cooking. Spend a fortune buying it lol.


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Coriander grows so fast I can't see any reason not to sow it at this time of year. Sow it in small quantities every couple of weeks, because it wont keep. Once it reaches maturity it will flower and lose its flavour. If you leave it though, you can get the seeds off it, and if you cook a lot I'm sure you'll already know that coriander seeds have 10 times the flavour of the leaves.

 

Yes I'll use the seeds too! However harvesting them from a home grown plant hasn't crossed my mind. I often make Indian, Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian food. And always use coriander! Oh I'm getting hungry writing this now lol!
I have bought some Thompson and Morgan Coriander seeds. Going to pop to a garden centre today while I wait for mum in chemo.
Will have to hunt as I don't know Manchester.


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Here's hoping you have a big greenhouse then I use separate greenhouses for Cropping and Propagation ... in a small greenhouse the differing requirements will make it difficult to accommodate then all.

Probably. Light is the biggest issue in winter. If you have things that don't need a lot of light then that's an option. You can provide heat to prevent things dying, but if they won't grow / fruit as a consequence of low light then its a bit pointless.

Before you consider plants that need heat through the winter you ought to check the economics - greenhouse are not the most thermally efficient structures to heat and you might be better off with the exotic plants indoors in a lit cabinet - easy to provide the heat they need in a centrally heated house, and artificial lighting may be cheaper than trying to heat a greenhouse (which will then have lousy light during winter anyway)

Put it this way: The folk that grow cannabis in their lofts get a decent (and no doubt profitable) crop