Broad beans are germinating

A trip down to the Allotment again today to harvest some cabbage and kale for Sunday dinner tomorrow. We have had quite a bit of rain this week so we only stayed a while to do a quick check around.

Really nice to see the first signs of life for our next years harvest already peeking through the soil as some of our overwintering Aquadulce Claudia Broad Beans have already germinated after 14 days since sowing.

No signs of life yet from the Elephant and Lautrec Wight garlic's so far but it's still early days yet.

The Thor F1 peppers are still looking healthy in the Polly-tunnel, with even some new flowers forming, we are keeping our fingers crossed that these might survive over the winter.

Taking of peppers, the Tabasco's are still slow to ripen in the greenhouse, We shall not be doing these next year as so far we have only had about 500g of semi-ripe peppers from these up until now. It's not a major loss as these where grown only to make my own Tabasco fermented hot sauce, it'll just mean less bottles than I first had planned.

We dug up the 1st of the Parsnip Gladiator F1, mainly because we couldn't resist it, as we wanted to see if they where actually looking like proper parsnips. We picked what we thought was a whopper, as it was, although it's a bit of a mutant. We will be adding that to our Sunday dinner veg tomorrow. All the straggly bits that we aren't eating are kept and frozen to turn into parsnip wine later in the year, so nothing gets wasted.

The Brussels Sprout 'Bright' F1 Hybrid are doing well, staked the biggest of the plants to guard against the wind. Might have to stake the others in the next few weeks. Stripping the lower leaves has had no ill effects so far, so that is something to remember for next time.

As we said a the the start of the post we picked another cabbage and some more kale for tomorrow's dinner, and we still have lot's and lot's to still harvest, so we will be fine for winter greens for a good while yet.