Grow your own: August
What to sow, plant and pick in a Dingestow garden or allotment in August. Dingestow sits in a frost-prone valley, so tender crops go out at the end of May, not the start.
Jobs for August
- Pick and store gluts: freeze beans, dry onions.
- Sow spinach and salads for autumn.
- Peg down strawberry runners to make new plants.
Sow indoors
On a windowsill, in a greenhouse or under cover
Nothing this month.
Sow outside
Straight into the ground
Radishes
Ready in about a month — perfect for children to grow.
Lettuce
Sow a short row every fortnight; it bolts in hot, dry spells.
Salad leaves & rocket
Cut-and-come-again: snip leaves and they regrow.
Spinach
Prefers cool weather — spring and late-summer sowings do best.
Plant out
Seedlings, sets and young plants
Strawberries
Tuck straw under the fruit to keep it clean and away from slugs.
Ready to harvest
- Tomatoes
- Chillies & peppers
- Cucumbers
- Courgettes
- Sweetcorn
- Runner beans
- French beans
- Broad beans
- Peas
- Potatoes
- Onions (sets)
- Garlic
- Carrots
- Beetroot
- Radishes
- Lettuce
- Salad leaves & rocket
- Chard
- Basil
- Parsley