Sowing in August - cime di rapa, rocket, chard, napa cabbage, and parsley 

Welcome 🙂 Yes, there are still lots of things that can be sown now, although mainly leafy greens. Others include radish, second cropping potatoes (in pots), carrots, endive, chicory, corn salad, lettuce, and then lots of brassicas - winter/spring cabbage, mustards, tatsoi, komatsuna, mizuna, pak choi, etc. Then in mid to late autumn one could sow overwintering broad beans, onions, shallots, and garlic. Good luck 🙂

With my chunky digits it would be a massacre without them 😂

Lots of ours bolted too - it’s always difficult during the summer. Freeze in a few weeks - that’s not a good thought! 😳 When do you expect your first frost? Early October?

It's very unusual not to have nightfrost already in September. It's sometimes as early as August when we have minus degrees at night.

That does make things a lot more challenging. I suppose you move to more hardy crops a couple of months earlier than we do... Do you manage to keep your tunnel busy during the winter or does everything stop for a few months?

@@jonnyskitchengarden It is possible to keep it going with one or two extra layers. Mustards and mizunas kept well two winters ago. We didn't have anything last winter and I am not prepared well enough yet for this winter!

A sock! 😳😂 To be honest, I am struggling to find one I could recommend. I used to be able to get good peat free compost but can’t recommend anything specific right now. I have had good results with coir blocks, though - you just soak them it lots of water and they expand into quite a pleasant textured material. It is low in nutrients, but that is what you need for seed sowing. It holds lots of water. I have been mixing coir with some sieved compost and a sprinkling of vermiculite - it’s more work than a bagged compost but the results have been fine.

In this swampy land I sometimes allow myself buying compost with some peat in it. I mostly make my own but it does take a lot of space! Right now I think I have about 6 cubic meters going. But I dread buying compost and then pull a carrot with rubbery protection on it as our neighbour had been told🤮.

@@jonnyskitchengarden thanks I will give the coir a go.

@@TT-pr4bf Eeeek! I understand Finland has quite large peat reserves and a policy for more sustainable use. I think the peat used here is not so carefully harvested.

That’s a good point! I don’t usually have much trouble with fungus gnats - they are often a sign of over watering, I think, or at least high humidity - but flea beetle is a real pain, especially on rocket. I really ought to cover it with fine mesh as I did with earlier sowings.

@@jonnyskitchengarden ok thanks fir the tip on watering and fungus gnats I’ll try bottom or less water