What to sow in August. Easy to grow food. What can I sow in August? Here are some seeds to sow in August for continued harvesting throughout the year and a self-sufficient vegetable garden. Seed details below. Gardening tips for August. If you are wondering which seeds to sow in the garden or sow on the allotment in late summer, or what vegetables can I plant in August, here are a few ideas. We live in the equivalent of hardiness Zone 8b, so I think it’s safe to say we are growing in zone 8.
Seeds in UK (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)
Organic Beetroot – Cylindra https://amzn.to/3zJbs8G Chioggia https://amzn.to/3rK1f91
Organic Beet Leaves – https://amzn.to/3BMxd9q
Organic Rainbow Chard – https://amzn.to/3KRL0Qj
Organic Carrots – Autumn King https://amzn.to/3yl8vKQ Flyaway https://amzn.to/3BLLvHd
Spring Cabbage – April https://amzn.to/33O8zJn
Chinese Cabbage – https://amzn.to/3l9ZgcG
Endive – https://amzn.to/2VfKjee
Fennel – Romanesco https://amzn.to/3iM6jpa
Lettuces – Organic Winter Density https://amzn.to/3f1Ciku or Lollo Rossa https://amzn.to/3l1PsSj
Spring Onions – Performer https://amzn.to/3kZt0cf
Overwintering Onions – Senshyu Yellow Globe https://amzn.to/3iT2FKl
Organic Parsley – Curled Leaf https://amzn.to/3rCPml4 or Flat leaf https://amzn.to/3BPF5GX
Potatoes – Charlotte https://amzn.to/3zBuLAu
Organic Summer Radishes – Cherry Belle https://amzn.to/3x9elxM
Winter Radishes – Red Meat https://amzn.to/2VfaLoq or birra di monaco – muncher bier https://amzn.to/2UTMnJg
Organic Spinach – Giant Winter https://amzn.to/3l24EPl
Salad Leaves – Oriental Ruby Streaks https://amzn.to/3iWUaxM or Mustard Green in Snow https://amzn.to/3l3mW2I
Turnips – Organic Purple top White Globe https://amzn.to/3kYLolG or Organic Golden Globe https://amzn.to/374TnFy or Snowball https://amzn.to/373pFAT
Seeds in USA (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases)
Beetroot – Detroit Dark Red https://amzn.to/3rCpqGk, Chioggia https://amzn.to/3x3D9ad
Beet Leaves – Lutz Green https://amzn.to/2VjAUTi
Rainbow Chard – https://amzn.to/3kYxYGl
Carrots – Rainbow Blend https://amzn.to/2Wr0bvg or Red Cored Chantenay https://amzn.to/3zIW3oM
Spring Cabbage – Copenhagan Market Early (can be sown now for late year harvest) https://amzn.to/3y91Y66
Chinese Cabbage – Peking Napa https://amzn.to/3rBaYyi
Endive – Rossa di Treviso https://amzn.to/2TBLpk6
Fennel – https://amzn.to/3l3nqpe
Lettuces – Organic Winter Density https://amzn.to/2UUNpoj
Spring Onions – White Lisbon https://amzn.to/3l2Vr9e or Organic White Nebraska https://amzn.to/3eXHG87
Overwintering Onions – Walla walla Spanish onion https://amzn.to/3BKM2Jn or Ruby https://amzn.to/2WmLycd
Parsley – Curled Leaf https://amzn.to/2TBLWT8 or Organic Flat Leaf https://amzn.to/3ya9LAG
Potatoes –
Summer Radishes – Cherry Belle https://amzn.to/3zGqfAH
Winter Radishes – Organic Red Meat https://amzn.to/2WrzqXz or China Rose https://amzn.to/3x8Q4HZ
Winter Spinach – American Spinach https://amzn.to/3x7PQko
Salad Leaves – Mustard Tendergreen https://amzn.to/3yaDEAD or Red Giant https://amzn.to/3zMhyoJ
Organic Turnips – Purple Top White Globe https://amzn.to/376xK7M or Golden Ball https://amzn.to/3iX16uO
For the full list of varieties grown at Byther Farm, check our website at https://bytherfarm.com/what-to-grow/
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About Us.
Byther Farm is a small organic homestead, designed and managed using permaculture practices. We aim for self-sufficiency in fruit and vegetables for increased self reliance and better resilience to the modern world. I recognise that we are unlikely to be truly self sufficient, but do the best we can. I share our home with my loving partner, Mr J and our cat, Monty.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Monmouthshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
There is a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
We keep chickens and Aylesbury ducks.
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Every year bugs eat my cauliflower and Cabbages,I grow them under a closh….Help
I would be very lost if it wasn’t for the advice these videos give me thanks so much Liz . I was wondering what variety of potato would be recommend for planting now in August . Thanks 🙏
I’m just in awe that you’re wearing a sweater in August! 103 here in Dallas, TX.
How do you keep this large area watered? I have a small garden and am struggling with long hot days
Thanks – some great tips
Hi Liz. I'm looking for some advice. I fell in love with gardening thanks to your channel. I'm planning to buy piece of land to be more self sufficient. How many acres would be enough for the garden to support family of 3 all year round?
Liz thank you again for sharing your knowledge, and for sharing all the links, I know that takes extra time! The Greek Gigantes beans you recommended are doing well for me, though I got them started late, I hope to get some beans off them in autumn.
Thanks!
Great list, i never thought of sowing beetroot outside directly. 😀
Might we perhaps share a one minute silence for those of us who are hopelessly unable to grasp any of this growing stuff…please? I could watch this 15min video many times over & still I wouldn't recall anythng of use/significance….any video on any gardening channel. Always seems to me that there's just way too much to know/address…like it would surely take a good 25yrs at least to even begin to be able to handle all the info required to meet with any useful success?
What variety of seed, in the ground or in a tray, what time of year, what type of soil, what position re sunlight/shade, what fertilizer, what care of the plant throughout its growth….and that's all that I can think of from the top of my head, around 1% of the total I'm sure!….for each & every vegetable/fruit/herb? I'd have an easier job to remember the King James Bible, word for word, start to finish!
I'd love to be able to tinker happily in my garden & enjoy the fruits of that labour to boot but I've tried many times, always hopelessly lost from start to finish & always finishing in a total zero, waste of time/effort & money.
And as it's also always stupidly expensive, all things considered, then Lidl's will have to do just fine ….lot easier & cheaper sadly.
I love the idea of the onions and carrots.
This was interesting, although I have done much the same as you have I have learn't something new; carrots and spring onions as companion plants. What a perfectly natural way to grow both without predator threat!
Beans and onions I have never grown together. I did tomatoes with rainbow chard. The chard did well but not the tomatoes! I will not be doing that next year. Thank you both very much!
I enjoyed your video very much 🙂 Are you saying that runner bean plants can be perennial? I thought they had to be planted by seed every year?
Hi, i have a question.
I planted runner beens fir the first time and they look good. I thought once they were over that I would need to dig them out and start again next year. But you mentioned yours come back each year so shall i just leave mine growing?
Ooh, am I glad I found your channel. I grew up and lived in Southern Africa for 50 years. Now I live in Europe and grow my own food. How awesome to see that one can close that gap between autumn and spring, still being able to eat fron one's own garden.
I've been growing cabbages for about 4 years and a lot of them don't turn into cabbages they literally grow very tall and then turn to seed?? Can you give me any clues as to why? X
Hi, where are you now ( area ) l mean which city/town, your farm looks wonderful.
Hi, I enjoy watching your videos as I’m a novice gardener. I wondered what variety your white flowered beans are as you stated that they came back year after year? Are they perennial or just seed themselves? Thank you
Very good.
7:56 you have beans that are perennials? What is the name? Thanks
I hear you about the labels for seedlings. I sowed a few brassicas in a tray for fall and I did label them but the pen I used was not water resistant. All my plant names washed away and most of the seedlings look very similar to each other.
Not quite relevant, but how late do you think I can get away with sowing salad leaves for polytunnel growing?
Just had some raised beds built and plan to plant the seeds you suggest tomorrow. Question, do any of them need netting to prevent pests? I was thinking the cabbage may be eaten? Thanks