Direct sowing - June

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    What do you all sow directly into the ground in June?

    Last year I had visions of having all kinds growing by now, but forgot that real life gets in the way:doh:
    In reality I have-

    Potatoes - earlies, seconds & a few mains...not managed to plant all the mains, is it still ok to do so now?
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    Toms, peppers, sweet peppers in greenhouse, all doing well.


    Onions & garlic - although the little house I built around the Kelsae fell apart in the 2 day'storm' we had & crushed most of them!
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    Sweetcorn, although they didn't look overly happy the last time I checked them. Do I have time to plant more?
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    I had started cabbage, brussels & swede in coirs, left them outside - they may well gave drowned :sad:

    The fruit patch is just 'there' & cracking on with life. Most of the plants are new, so not expecting much from them this year - except strawberries :spinning: There is a bit of life on the plum tree - but the wind took the netting & the birds have probably now taken what was growing..
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    Am feeling a bit disheartened...please tell me I can still sow! :blue thumb:
     
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      Sorry, I can't help you :noidea: :grphg:.

      I'm sure there are things that can be sown but we never sow things into the ground. Everything here in Shineyland is brought on in pots first.
       
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      Thanks @shiney - I've never been a direct sower either. I like to 'nurture' the little beauties before planting out. This is what has left me in a bit of a muddle :sad:
       
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      @Cannyfullpots our reason is that we need to know that it's a plant in the ground! :biggrin: Our garden is so big and busy that anything sown in situ might be forgotten about and dug up by accident.

      With the veggies, we bring them on in the greenhouse and let them get fairly big before planting out. It helps them to survive the wildlife - rabbits, deer etc.
       
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      Yes you'll get a good crop still, just a bit later than everyone else.


      Those look better than mine, so I'm sure they will be fine as they are.


      Yes - you can sow these now, it depends on the variety, now is the ideal time for sowing winter cabbages and I will be doing so soon along with sprouts. I tend to sow these in pots first then transplant as direct sown doesn't work very well for me in my soil.
       
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        It's because of my garden that I'm so not with it at the allotment :rolleyespink: Have spent days demolishing Ivy amongst other stuff, to put up a fence to keep the dogs in! Fella that was supposed to be doing thenfencing, didn't show up - so we did it ourselves (Moved house)

        I'm going to the allotment this morning - then onto the garden this afternoon as have a couple of 4x2 leanto 'greenhouses' to build & some rubbish to get rid of.

        Thank you @JWK - is there anything else that can be sown now in or out of pots then? I thought it would just be direct sow at this time of year?

        See my eyes get opened all the time! Got to love this site :yay:
         
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          Sorry to hear about your Kelsaes Canny :sad:

          Jenny's list is a good one :goodpost:

          The things I was gonna suggest are on there :thumbsup:
           
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          Nothing.

          Yes, absolutely nothing. I have heavy clay soil and there's not one crop worth sowing direct. I now even start seed spuds off in small mushroom trays, then transplant into pots and then plant out when their root systems are fully formed. Seed spuds grown this way 100% success, others
           
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            Thank you @jennywren :blue thumb:
            I managed to sow spring onions, carrots, lettuce, cucumber & peas yesterday. Thats quite a long list you've posted :dbgrtmb: All is not as lost as I thought :)

            I rebuilt the Kelsae windbreaker yesterday - about 6 of them out of 20 survived. Most of them had leaves severed right from the bulb or had the bulb sliced clean in half. :sad: The ones that are left are now starting to bulb up nicely.

            Busy days for you then @Scrungee :smile:
            My soil is really good - am very lucky in that respect!
             
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              Like Scrungee, our soil is heavy clay with 40yrs of garden compost and horse manure dug in. So it's fairly good but we still prefer to bring everything on in pots. That way you know whether they have viable growth before planting out.

              We have just sown more runner beans for a later crop and the best ones will be planted out. The others will be given away.

              If you have excess seeds then you might as well try sowing now as the seed will be less viable next year.
               
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