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🌱📅 What Seeds to Sow in August | Easy Veg & Flowers to Plant Now
Aug 23, 2025
Not sure what to plant right now? 🌱📅 Here’s a quick UK-friendly guide to the best seeds to sow in August—speedy veg for late summer harvests and hardy blooms for autumn and next spring. We’ll cover direct sowing vs. modules, keeping seedbeds moist in hot spells, shade/mesh for tender seedlings, and simple slug protection. Veg: rocket, salad mixes, radish, spring onions, beetroot (early Aug), chard, perpetual spinach, kale (baby leaf), kohlrabi, turnips ‘Tokyo Cross’, Asian greens (pak choi, mizuna, tatsoi), coriander/dill/parsley, plus spring cabbage for overwintering. Flowers: calendula, cornflower, nigella, marigolds, and biennials like foxglove, wallflower, sweet William. #SeedsToSow #AugustSowing #UKGardening #GrowYourOwn #AllotmentLife #QuickCrops #AutumnVeg #FlowerSeeds #PollinatorFriendly #PeatFree #NoDig #GardeningWithBen
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What seeds are we sewing in August?
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Welcome to Gardening with Ben. And in
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today's video, we're going to talk about
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what seeds I am personally planting in
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August this month as I want to start
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some more off. Things are starting to
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die off and I want something else to
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concentrate on doing. And August is a
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fantastic time to start off your bienial
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flowers. That means that you start them
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off this year and then they'll flower
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next year. So, what seeds are we
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planting? That is the big question. So,
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we're going to be starting a lot of
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flowers off ready for next year. I like
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my flowers as they attract the bees and
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the bees help with pollination as well.
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So, the first one that we're going to be
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sewing is forget me knots. I've never
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sewn them before. So, we'll see how well
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they get on. We'll be starting these off
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in the poly tunnel. keeping them alive
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throughout the winter and then planting
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them next year. So, they look pretty
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nice.
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Then we're going to try some fox gloves.
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Now, bees absolutely love these. They
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love going into the flowers, collecting
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the nectar, and then flying off. So,
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yeah, they'll be a great one to start.
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I'm looking forward to growing these.
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I'm learning more and more about flowers
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all the time as I don't know much about
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flowers. I know obviously more about
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vegetables, but the more I learn, the
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more I can share with you guys. So
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again, if you're wanting to try and grow
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some flowers yourself, these are the
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ones to get started now, ready for next
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year. Then we're also going to grow some
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primulas. Now, I'm not always that keen
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on these because when they do start to
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die off, they look horrible, but they
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add some color throughout the winter
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period. So, we're going to be sewing
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some of these and hopefully we'll get
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some flowers on them throughout the
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winter.
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Then, an easy one, and yes, they are
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easy. I've had fantastic results from
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growing these myself. I've grown them a
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few years over the past, and these are
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loopins. They grow really well. Start
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them off now, and you'll probably get
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small flowers next year, but then the
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year after they'll probably be a lot
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bigger. So, if you're wanting some
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fantastic loopins, get growing some now
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and see how well you get on. Like I
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said, they're nice and easy and they're
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expensive to buy the plants, so it saves
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you a hell of a lot of money and they
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look absolutely fantastic in the garden.
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Then we're going to try some sweet
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williams.
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Never grown these before. Again, another
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new bit to me. So, we'll be giving it a
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try, seeing how well they get on. seeing
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if we get a good result. Obviously, give
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us a follow and then you'll be able to
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stay up to date with how well we get on
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with these.
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And last but not least, are wall
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flowers. Again, another fantastic
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flower. And again, I've never tried
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these before. So, all these new ones are
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new to me as well, and I'm looking
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forward to trying all these. Then, I'm
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only going to be sewing one vegetable to
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try throughout the winter. You may have
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seen in my previous video about um
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Chinese cabbage. I've never tried
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growing Chinese cabbage before, so I
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thought why not give it a try? Let's see
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how well we get on with it and taste it.
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I've never tried Chinese cabbage, so
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it'll be great to try it. So, I'm going
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to try some of that. See how we get on
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and see if we can grow some through the
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winter and see if we get any good
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results from it.
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Then, finally, Christmas potatoes. I'm
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going to be starting my Christmas
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potatoes. And these are the ones that
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I'm going to be trying. If you So,
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obviously, if you're growing Christmas
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potatoes, I plant them in the poly
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tunnel in boxes because the cold frost
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can damage them. So, I grow them in the
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poly tunnel. I plant them in August and
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then they'll be ready to harvest around
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December time. So, I bought these online
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and I thought, "Oh, that's a good
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price." Didn't realize how many I'd
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bought too many poly for me. I'll be
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sharing them with somebody else. So,
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we've got three varieties of potatoes.
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We have got
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Aaron Pilot, but look at how many is in
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a bag.
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There's a kilogram in each one. So,
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there's about 25 potatoes. I only needed
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probably about six of each one.
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too many potatoes. It'll be all right if
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I planted them outside, but because I'm
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planting them in boxes, it'll be more
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expensive getting all the compost for
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them. Then we've got some javelin
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javelin variety.
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And then we have got some Maris Piper
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ones as well. So yeah, three great
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varieties of potato. We'll be planting
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them next weekend down at the a lotment.
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So, make sure you stay tuned for that.
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I'll do a video on us planting them and
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then obviously you'll be able to follow
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along and see how well they get on. So,
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if you're wanting Christmas potatoes,
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make sure you order them online. You can
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get your seed potatoes and most garden
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centers do them now. They uh really try
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and sell Christmas potatoes, but
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remember to grow them indoors. Uh some
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people do grow them outside, but I
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wouldn't advise it as the frost can kill
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the plants if we do get a hard frost. So
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yeah, give it a try. Let me know if
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you're going to be growing Christmas
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potatoes or if you're going to try any
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of those flowers as well or even Chinese
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cabbage. I'd love to hear from you all.
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So make sure you share this post to
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gardening groups to let them know what
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can be sewn and encourage other people
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to grow stuff. Give it a like, give it a
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comment, and keep watching my videos. So
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until next time everyone, remember, keep
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smiling, keep shining, and keep
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gardening with Ben.
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