Harvesting
Dec 3rd: Winter veg cropping well:-
Parship, Savoy cabbage, mustard greens, turnip, beetroot, leek, parsley, sage, rosemary, & thyme
Planting
October 20th
Finally got the Broad Beans & japanese onion sets in.
September 24th
Garlic bulbs in for the winter
Chucked a few handfulls of leaf beet seed around
Late October 2011
28th oct
parsnips, leeks, mustard greens still doing well, first savoy cabbage, and last of the squash.
Mizuna & mustard greens still cropping – that handful of roughly scattered seed in September has paid a handsome dividend!
beans coming to an end – harvesting last few, still quite sweet
courgette, pumpkin & squash plants in the compost bin now.
Early October 2011
Runnner beans, dwarf kidneys & french beans still cropping nicely, courgettes still hanging in there.
Pumpkins removed before somebody nicks them or plays football with them.
Turnips & beetroot waiting for somebody to eat them
Pulling a few leeks and parsnips now.
Bulb fennel gone to seed again.
September 2011
Carrots, Fennel, beans still, courgettes still escaping, mustard greens & mizuna; and not forgetting the apples, raspberries and flowers; spuds, onions & shallots too from store. sweetcorn & parsley didn’t come right for me this year, pumpkins but no butternut squash – it’s a mystery.
July 2011
I’ve just pulled my onions out of the ground before this lalest patch of rain. As it was about 15% had already got white rot – should have had them out before the last rains. Good crop though nevertheless – lovely big onions. It looks like the Sturon avoided the rot better than the flatter Stuttgart.
June 2011
first early spuds in full flow, garlic & winter onions dug before the rain rotted any more of them, peas & sugar snaps doing well, still some broad beans, loads of raspberries, strawberries, some young carrots, lettuce, rocket, leaf beet …
April 2011
Loads of asparagus now , rhubarb, broad leaved parsley, mint, oregano; purple sprouting broccoli’s just about coming to an end
Planting
Late summer & autumn 2011
flinging handfulls of seed anywhere, leaf beet, spinnach mizuna & mustard all over the place, some rows of parsley, beetroots and turnip and stuff.
July 2011
all the cucurbits in now, sweetcorn planted out & growing
16th – dropped in a few rows of seed to take advantage of the rain – parsley; turnip; rocket; carrot; beetroot; spring onions; radish; dwarf kidney bean; climbing french bean; and mizuna
June 2011
planted out leeks a while back, sweetcorn too, squashes & pumpkins, cucumbers, beans ages ago ….
Late April 2011
in the ground:-
another row of carrots;
Brussels sprouts & purple sprouting broccoli into a seed bed
Cold frame/cloche:-
climbing beans, french beans, borlotti beans
lettuce
pumpkin, courgette, more tomatoes (all a bit of a gamble – might be better in the kitchen)
planted out tomatoes into cold frames
planted out lettuce under cloche
in the house:-
Sweetcorn
Early April 2011
Spuds going in now: Second earlies, maincrops and Pink Fir Apples
late march:- bit of a gamble – might be a hard frost yet
leek – saved from last autumn, sown into a seed bed (showing through 5 apr)
broad leaved parsley – sprinkled into odd corners & margins
mizuna, seed saved from autumn, first short row sown (showing through 2nd April)
Elephant garlic – couple of dozen cloves saved from last year
under glass:-
beetroot , first short row
Runner bean, saved from last autumn
Sugar snap peas, left over from last year,
dwarf yellow french bean, two short rows, left over from last year
Mid March
first early spuds under fleece – no sign yet
broad beans – under cloche (just stating to show through the soil in late march)
Tomatoes – germinated indoors & moved out into cold frame, about 1cm high
lettuce seed in indoors
Feb
Parsnip sown – (seedlings up now in late march.)