Sow successive rows of spinach and spring cabbage if you have room, and it’s nearly the last chance for ‘Oriental leaves’
August gardening means autumn (sorry). That doesn’t mean the weather won’t be hot and dry, though it can be a sultry month. Land will likely need constant watering and weeding, mulching maybe. There isn’t as much to sow, though, so try to make good use of summer space that opens up as potatoes are lifted, peas finish, and shallots and onions are dried.
Timing is more of a thing now, so sow successive rows of spinach and spring cabbage if you have room. It is nearing your last chance to sow chard and ‘Oriental leaves’. Pak choi, mibuna, mizuna, and komatsuna (mustard spinach) are mostly fast-growing and widely available in garden stores or online from Chiltern (chilternseeds.co.uk), Real Seeds (realseeds.co.uk), and Kings (kingsseeds.com), among others.
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