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What vegetables can you plant in August
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Aug 16, 2025
🌱✨ Don’t let August slip by without sowing something new! You can still keep your allotment and garden thriving with late-season crops. From speedy salads 🥬 to hardy winter greens 🥦, there’s plenty you can get started right now. 👉 Watch the reel to see which vegetables you can sow this month and keep those harvests coming well into autumn 🍂 What are you sowing this August? Let me know below 👇 #VegetablesToSow #AugustGardening #AllotmentLife #GrowYourOwn #GardeningWithBen #UKGardener #WhatToSow
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What vegetables can you plant in August?
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Well, we're halfway through August and
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if you've not sewn these plants, you can
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still sew them now as obviously it might
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start getting cooler now. Who knows, we
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could have another heat wave. But these
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are the vegetables that you can sew this
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month down at your a lotment or in the
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garden. So, let's get a notepad and jot
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down all these what you can grow. First
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up is lettuce. Now, the best variety to
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grow is the cut and come again lettuce.
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So that you can just keep snipping it
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off as and when you are ready to grow
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it. So don't grow the iceberg. Grow the
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cut and come again lettuce. Now next up
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is spinach. Another good vegetable to
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keep snipping off and using as and when
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you need it. And obviously now that is
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getting a bit cooler, it will grow
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better now rather than in the main
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summertime. Spring onion. Now, you need
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a winter hardy variety to grow at this
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time of year. So, have a look around,
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check your packets, make sure that it's
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a hardy variety, and get sewing some
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spring onion throughout the winter
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period. Next up is radish. A good fast
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growing vegetable. Now, you can be
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harvesting these in 8 weeks, as fast as
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that. So, if you wanting a quick crop,
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get some radish in now before it does
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start to get cooler. Next up is k robbi.
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Not something that I've tried before,
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but I'm always willing to give it a try.
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So, I may possibly sew some myself to
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see what they like and how they taste.
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I've never actually grown them myself.
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So, let me know in the comments if
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you've grown colabi before. Next up is
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pack choy. Another one which is where
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you can cut it and use it as and when
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you actually need to grow, eat it.
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Turnips. Another autumn winter veg that
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will grow fast. So if you want it in
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some turnips in your Sunday dinner, get
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sewing some now and you will be
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harvesting them later on in the year.
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Finally is corn salad. Another great
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variety to try. And yeah, there's a few
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there what you can try and see how you
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get on with. Now if you've got a poly
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tunnel or greenhouse, you can actually
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grow some things inside there throughout
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the winter period. And these are the
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ones that you can actually use to grow.
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Now up is a winter lettuce. So if you've
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got a poly tunnel or a greenhouse, get
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some winter lettuce in and keep them
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crops growing all the way through the
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winter period. Then you can actually try
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chard as well. Grow that indoors and
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keep that growing throughout the winter
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period until it gets really cold when
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it'll probably die off. But try giving
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chard a try and add that to your salads.
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Undercover is spring cabbage. Now, if
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you're wanting some cabbages in early
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springtime, get sewing them now to plant
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out and get growing. Vegetables that you
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can plant out now to get growing
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throughout the winter period. So, that's
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planting them outside. They need to be
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ready plants and these are first off are
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leaks. Leaks can grow through the winter
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period and you can get a great crop. The
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cold weather does help some of the
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plants grow. So, have a look at the
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varieties and you can grow some leaks
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through the winter period. Is kale. Kale
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is a fantastic hardy crop which can grow
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well in cold weather and keep that
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produce growing throughout all the
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winter period and it's absolutely
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delicious however you cook it and it
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will add some vegetables to your Sunday
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dinner as well. So there's a few
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varieties of kale. There's curly kale,
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there's purple kale, there's green kale,
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there's loads of varieties of kale out
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there. So give them a try and see which
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one is your favorite. Next up is autumn
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cauliflower. Now, obviously the name
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comes from it. It's an autumn variety.
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Get planting those out now and you can
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have some cauliflowers throughout the
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autumn period is Calibrize broccoli. Get
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planting that out now and you can keep
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the crops coming throughout the autumn
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and the winter period. So, those are the
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vegetables that you can plant in August.
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Give them a try. Let me know what you're
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trying down in your a lotment and your
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garden. And yeah, give us a follow to
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