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of the meat.Closer to home, I am just about to sow broad beans. This will be the first time I've grown them in the back garden, which I hope will mean I can keep on top of any blackly infestations, which so often plague them.For autumn sowing, 'Aquadulce

August can often feel like a tricky time on the allotment. Lots of things like salad potatoes and beetroot have been harvested, leaving large gaps or whole beds free. Then there's the interruption of a summer holiday - should you sow anything new

 fruiting until the first frosts. The plants themselves are also daintier than garden strawberries, so they make a very pretty ground cover.You can still just about get away with sowing alpine strawberry seed this May, since the cold winter weather has put

is the perfect time to start.It's too late to sow onion seed now, but you may find that friends still have some sets left over (my allotment neighbour gave me some surplus red onion sets - 'Red Baron' I think). I also bought white onions ('Marco' F1) from

sowing Z. 'Blackcurrant Sorbet' and Z. 'Orange King'. Orange is a great colour to combine with purples, pinks and blues to add zing, or if you prefer, lime green.When I'm cutting flowers, I always make sure I have a bucket of water with me so I can put

. These 'leaf' signs will make this the optimum time.Looking at my calendar again, in period one, Sunday 13 June is marked as the moon in Cancer, so this is the best possible day in that period to plant leaf crops like spinach, chard or successional sowing