A lovely sunny day and off to the Allotment to get some veggies for today's dinner. A nice tight Cabbage (Kilaton F1), some Kale Borecole Vates Blue Curled and we also decided to dig up another Parsnip Gladiator F1.
The Parsnip took some getting out, nice deep root on it, that single parsnip is 750g on it's own and there are plenty more still to lift. Not bad for a pack of 75 seeds that cost just £0.60
The Aquadulce Claudia Broad Beans are doing great, and by the looks of it only a couple of seeds did not germinate. We planted extra seeds between the 3 rows, just 2 or three, so I have moved one of the extra seedlings into the gap in the row.
The Brussels Sprout ‘Bright’ F1 are doing great still, looks as if we will get some of these for our Xmas dinner this year.
Still nothing showing in the Garlic bed as yet, the WWW says 4-8 weeks before germination sighs appear so still early days yet. Fingers crossed all is well with them, as garlic is not cheap to buy from the garden centres. The 4 cloves of Elephant garlic set us back £5.98.
Was hoping to start tiding up the fruit today, but the raspberry 'All Gold' canes still have lots of leaves on them still, some are even still fruiting, so we will have to wait a little longer before moving them to their new homes inside the fruit cage. The Jostaberry plants also need a good pruning this year as they are now getting pretty large but it looks like we will have to do that in a few weeks time as well.
While we where there, our allotment neighbour Norman, was having an allotment tidy as well, and asked if we wanted a couple of raised beds he no longer needed, this offer was kindly accepted. So now we have added these to the fruit side of the Allotment, in one of the few spots we had left that could be used. The current plan is to used these for the Uchiki Kuri Squash next April allowing them to sprawl over the fruit side of the plot.
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