WHEN I put my book A Year With Gardener Jack together I started with September and ended with August, a month that in many ways is the low point of the growing year but in many other ways is remarkably fecund.
All the vegetables we grow during the cooler months are absent from the veggie plots. We may have a few cherry tomatoes and peppers to boast about but beyond that we only have very hardy producers like okra, Malabar spinach and snake beans to comfort us.
In the absence of prime vegetables it might be wise to cover your veggie plots with clear plastic, a process called solarisation. The plastic will stop weeds growing and will also sterilise the soil. August gives the last opportunity to solari ...

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