Maximise Your Crop
Successional growing is a gardening method that allows you to have a regular supply of delicious food to add to your meals or give to your friends and family. When you grow successionally, you sow your seeds with 2-4 week intervals, to extend your growing season and to maximise your crop. So planning is key.
Spring is here in the UK, but before you go full force towards the soil with all your seeds, pause.
A couple of questions you should ask yourself:
Are these seeds early crops? Are they fast to harvest? Do they mature quickly?
Is this something I can see myself eating regularly?
Is this a veg/fruit that you want to be eating deep in to the year?
Yes - then let’s sow them successionally.
No - then go ahead, sprinkle those seeds, and watch your crops grow!
Spinach from The Grow Guide Garden.
What Crops are Great for Successionally Growing?
Radishes, french beans, lettuce, peas, some carrots and spinach.
How to Grow?
Get your phone or gardening diary out, and take note of the first sowing date. Sow a few seeds of your choice. Keep them watered, and hydrated. Revisit your patch within the next couple of weeks, and sow some more. Some seeds you’ll be able to plant within a 2-4 week intervals. For lettuce, waiting until four true leaves come through will give you a steady growing season.