If you have a greenhouse or polytunnel, or even a cold frame or a sunny porch then this is such a great way of staggering cropping time to keep your homegrown veggies coming through until next spring.
What you should find is that those that are growing indoors will grow significantly faster and will be ready to harvest ahead of those grown outdoors. So, for pak choi or tatsoi, you could easily be harvesting indoor grown plants by November, with outdoor crops to enjoy harvesting in December. Likewise for plants like kale, spinach and chard, you’ll be able to start harvesting any that are grown in the greenhouse fairly quickly, whilst those planted outside take a little longer to get going.
What this also means is that the plants grown indoors will go over a little earlier, and will bolt ahead of those grown outdoors. So as any indoor grown broccoli is bolting, you can be picking the outdoor grown broccoli.
It’s a good way of staggering things over the next few months, and it also gives you a bit of a back up – if one batch doesn’t do that well, perhaps because of slugs or rabbits etc, there’s another batch growing elsewhere that might fare better.