Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Summer sowings are the key to keeping beds full and harvests coming through autumn and winter.
So much you can sow now!
With no dig, rotation is not a rule. Soil is healthy, fertile and alive with possibilities to grow whatever plants you can find space for. Especially at this time of year when gaps start to appear after first plantings finish their harvests.
I plant whatever I need to wherever I see space, without worrying about what grew there before. You can be creative, also intersow and interplant. New seedlings benefit from the company of larger plants, as I describe in Grow Together.
Outside, directly in the ground, sow dwarf French beans. While carrots and parsnips still have time to grow large before winter, you can intersow them between vegetables that have enough space between, and will finish cropping within four to six weeks.
Parsnips take a long time to emerge and therefore benefit from any water you give to the lettuce. That helps to keep the seeds moist while they are sending down their first roots.
Under cover, sow broccoli to crop either in autumn, or next spring.
Cauliflowers including romanesco are good to sow now, for cropping late September to November.
Also beetroot multisown, chard, salad onion, cabbage for autumn, kale for late summer and until next spring in mild areas, lettuce, and chicory for radicchio.
These summer sowing ideas help you make the most of every space in your no dig garden, with succession sowing, interplanting and continuous harvests through the seasons.
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Summer sowings are the key to keeping beds full and harvests coming through autumn and winter.
So much you can sow now!
With no dig, rotation is not a rule. Soil is healthy, fertile and alive with possibilities to grow whatever plants you can find space for. Especially at this time of year when gaps start to appear after first plantings finish their harvests.
I plant whatever I need to wherever I see space, without worrying about what grew there before. You can be creative, also intersow and interplant. New seedlings benefit from the company of larger plants, as I describe in Grow Together.
Outside, directly in the ground, sow dwarf French beans. While carrots and parsnips still have time to grow large before winter, you can intersow them between vegetables that have enough space between, and will finish cropping within four to six weeks.
Parsnips take a long time to emerge and therefore benefit from any water you give to the lettuce. That helps to keep the seeds moist while they are sending down their first roots.
Under cover, sow broccoli to crop either in autumn, or next spring.
Cauliflowers including romanesco are good to sow now, for cropping late September to November.
Also beetroot multisown, chard, salad onion, cabbage for autumn, kale for late summer and until next spring in mild areas, lettuce, and chicory for radicchio.
These summer sowing ideas help you make the most of every space in your no dig garden, with succession sowing, interplanting and continuous harvests through the seasons.
You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:
youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join
#nodig #sowingseeds #vegetablegardening #growyourownfood #charlesdowding
