Vegetable planting guide: what to plant in November

John Walker
Updated
Wrap up warm when in the garden as winter gets underway - Alamy
Wrap up warm when in the garden as winter gets underway - Alamy

Patio pots and containers 

Plant: Autumn planting garlic in pots.

Sunny porch, lean-to or unheated greenhouse (mini or large)

Sow: Cut-and-come-again salad leaf mixtures: 'Oriental Salad Leaf Mix’, 'Mixed Spicy Salad Leaves’ or 'Autumn and Winter Salad Leaf Mix’.

Polytunnel 

Sow: 

  • Broad bean 'Super Aquadulce’

Broad beans - Credit: Alamy
Certain varieties of broad bean can grow in colder temperatures giving you an all year round supply Credit: Alamy

  • Oriental greens komatsuna, mibuna, mizuna

  • Oriental mustard 'Red Giant’

  • Salad rocket

  • Lettuce 'Vailan’

  • Mangetout pea 'Herald’

  • Carrot 'Amsterdam Forcing 3’

Outdoors in the garden or allotment 

Sow: Winter-hardy broad bean 'Aquadulce Claudia’ and pea 'Meteor’.

Plant: Cloves of autumn planting garlic 'Printanor’, 'Early Wight’ or 'Germidour’, autumn planting 'sets’ of overwintering onion 'Senshyu Yellow’, and shallots 'Eschalote Grise’ or 'Hative de Niort’ and dormant rhubarb crowns.

Send for now

Seed potatoes.

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