In midsummer you can harvest your own vegetables in abundance. The free areas can be used well for planting late-season vegetables. You can find out in this article which varieties are particularly suitable due to their rapid growth.
What late vegetables can you grow in August?
Quick late-season vegetables that can be grown in August include Chinese cabbage, bok choy, kale, fennel, radishes, spinach, endive, lamb's lettuce, chard, winter purslane and beetroot. Please note the crop rotation and plant families of the following crops.
cabbage
- Traditionally,Chinese cabbage is sown as a secondary crop at the end of July. Alternatively, you can buy small seedlings from the nursery and transplant them into the bed in August.
- Pak Choi is becoming increasingly popular in the kitchen. Sown at the beginning of August, the tender heads are ready for harvest at the end of September.
- Kale lovers cultivate tender-leaved varieties as babyleaf vegetables. Sow the cabbage quite densely in rows 15 centimeters apart. You can harvest the young leaves continuously and enjoy them raw in a salad or briefly steamed.
Fennel
If you grow fennel in pots on the terrace, you can transplant the vegetable into the bed as a secondary crop until mid-August. Here it grows quickly and is mature by the beginning of October at the latest.
Radish
The delicious tubers can even tolerate light frost. Sown thinly in rows, the plants are ready to harvest after just seven to eight weeks.
Lettuce and spinach
- Spinach for the autumn harvest you can sow until the beginning of September. Since the weather conditions are somewhat wetter in autumn, you should use mildew-resistant late varieties.
- Endive Saladt is a classic autumn salad. You can get pre-grown plants from the nursery and add them to the bed as a secondary crop.
- Now the time begins for the popularcorn salad. Sown in mid to late August, you can harvest as early as September.
- It's never too late forChard. Sow this in August, cut the leaves with the brightly colored stems as baby leaves. Briefly steamed, an extremely aromatic and he althy delight. If you give the chard winter protection in late autumn, it will survive the cold well and can even be cultivated as a biennial.
- Winter purslane is absolutely undemanding. Like winter cress and wild rocket, it only germinates well at low temperatures.
Pay attention to crop rotation
When reseeding, you should not ignore crop rotation. Heavy eaters should now be followed by weak or moderate eaters. Also avoid using vegetables from the same plant family in the following crop.
Tip
You can even grow beetroot in August. Simply sow varieties like the “Red Ball” a little more densely and harvest the tender tubers when they are just the size of a table tennis ball.
