Lock down – grow your own

There’s still loads you can sow, grow and eat

- Peter Seabrook

THE raised wooden containers made from recycled pallets to grow vegetables and salads (our pallet-able/palatable gardening theme!) have proved very successful. Early crops have been harvested and eaten during a lockdown, and follow- up crops sown and planted.

This week, we come to the last-chance saloon for a number of the summer vegetable crops, when it comes to sowing beetroot, carrots, peas, and French beans.

Left any longer in Essex, they will not have enough growing time to crop well. The warmer southwest may have a little longer, but my notes over the years give the mid-July deadline.