Overview

• Five vegetables still suitable now include lettuce and field salad, radishes, carrots, winter spinach and winter onion sets.
• Six herbs that can be planted or sown in September are parsley, chives, chervil, winterportulak (postelein), thyme and cress.
• Key timelines remain narrow: direct-sow radishes until early September, plant winter onions until early October and sow certain winter spinach varieties into October.
• Choose sunny to semi-shaded, well-drained beds or containers, water consistently and shield young plants with fleece or brushwood during cold nights.
• Autumn sowings bring advantages such as reduced bolting and, for carrots, noticeably sweeter flavor, while many quick greens sown now can be cut in roughly 3–6 weeks.