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This video covers easy vegetables you can sow in early autumn to keep your garden or allotment productive later in the year.
I explain which types of crops establish well as temperatures cool, how to sow them successfully, and simple care tips to help seedlings grow steadily. Choosing suitable vegetables at this stage helps extend the growing season and provides fresh harvests when many summer crops finish.
Suitable for raised beds, containers, polytunnels, greenhouses, and traditional allotment plots. Perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners wanting straightforward sowing advice and reliable results.
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What vegetables can you plant in
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September for a lotments and gardens for
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growing throughout the autumn and winter
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period and into the springtime? Welcome
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to Gardening with Ben. We're going to
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share with you what you can. So, this
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month, September, ready for growing
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through the autumn and the winter
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periods. So, first up on the list is
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spinach. Now, if you're growing spinach,
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you can grow fast varieties and make
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sure you get a hardy variety so that it
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can grow throughout the colder periods
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in the ground. So, first up was spinach.
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Next up is lettuce, and it needs to be a
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hardy variety as well. Look for winter
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varieties like Arctic King, which can be
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grown outside during the colder weather.
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Next up is radish. Radish is a fast
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growing vegetable. So you may be able to
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get a harvest before the cold weather
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and the frosts appear. So if you get it
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in fast, get it growing and hopefully a
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harvest before the cold weather. Next up
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is turnips. Another fast growing
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vegetable which will be ready in the
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autumn time, ready for those stews. Next
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up is pack choy. Again, you might be
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able to get some harvests off before the
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cold weather comes and before the frost
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arrives, which will kill it off. So if
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you wanted to get something in fast, get
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some pack choy to give it a try. Next up
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is rocket and any other salad leaves.
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Again, like I said, get it in now before
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the frost comes. You'll be able to get
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some harvests off it before the frost
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comes and kills the plants off, but get
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some in now and you can be harvesting it
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all the way up to the first frost, which
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might not be until end of October. So
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see if you're lucky and get some salad
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leaves growing. vegetables that you can
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grow indoors. If you've got a poly
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tunnel, if you've got a greenhouse and
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you plan on continuing growing
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throughout the winter period, these are
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the vegetables to give a try. First up
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is carrots. Now, it needs to be an early
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variety of carrot. You'll probably be
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able to get some baby carrots around
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springtime. So, if you've got a poly
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tunnel or greenhouse and you've got
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raised beds in it or you're going to
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grow them in containers, give it a try
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and see if you can get some carrots
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growing. Next up is beetroot. Now, you
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won't get any beetroot because uh it's
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not the sort of time to grow the
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beetroot, but you'll be able to get some
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beetroot leaves and you can use them in
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the salads. You can actually eat
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beetroot leaves. So, if you're wanting
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to add some vibrant color to your
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salads, get growing some beetroot leaves
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and yeah, see what they turn out like.
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Next up is herbs. Now, the only two
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herbs that you can grow indoors in the
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cooler periods are parsley and
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coriander. So, if you're wanting to keep
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those spices flowing throughout the
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autumn period and the winter period to
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add to your spice rack, try growing
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parsley and coriander and dry it out and
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use it in your meals. And last but not
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least, what you need to start thinking
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about ordering ready for planting in
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October or towards the end of September
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are garlic, which I usually say
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obviously order it either online uh the
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actual garlic bulbs or go to a
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garden center or if you're planning on
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growing a supermarket varieties, stick
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to the UK varieties as obviously they're
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used to the UK climates when they've
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been grown.
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So you've better chance of growing them
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in the UK. Don't get any from any exotic
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countries as they may not necessarily
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grow here well in the UK. Next up is
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onions. Now these need to be the autumn
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bulb variety which are winter hardy and
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grow out throughout the winter period
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and they usually ready around June time.
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So have a look around. Most garden
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centers will be selling them. They're
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usually in a little bag and you get
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plenty of sets in them. Usually about
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between 50 and 100 bulbs and yeah, get
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them planted end of September, beginning
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of October. And last but not least is
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shelots.
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Again, another onion variety. Start
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thinking about planting them towards the
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end of September into October, ready for
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growing throughout the winter period,
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ready for harvesting around June time.
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And that is shallot.
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a little joke to end up with, but I hope
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you found that useful. Make sure you do
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thinking about getting an a lotment as
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obviously the more help the better.
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Until next time everyone, remember keep
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smiling, keep shining and keep gardening
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with Ben everyone.
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