Thought I'd take a few veggie mug shots to record progress with other years. I'm now cropping strawberries and globe artichokes which are a bit behind last year's , whereas lettuce ,rocket ,radish ,onions and garlic have made a quick catchup in the recent warm temperatures after May and early June's joke weather.It's been very dry for a few weeks but now expecting a bit more rain which should do wonders for everything.Doubt if things will catch up to where they were on 22nd July 2013 when I was harvesting a glut of mangetout peas and courgettes?
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| Monster lettuce protected from the icy May and June blast by a basic polyhoop |
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| Snowball onions from sets - harvested as continental onions while the green tops are fresh |
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| Wild rocket,red globe radish and Flavor garlic |
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Alliums seem to be doing well with the onion sets maturing early and the first garlic bulbs already a decent size for roasting from fresh.The leek plantlets are also much further on than last year.
Pleased with the radish sown from a packet bought in the Canary Islands with enough seed for a small field.
2 comments:
Our garlic has died back now nit I haven't checked whether it is any good underground yet, Fingers crossed,
Good luck Sue,
Last year above ground my garlic stems looked great but when I dug down the bulbs were rubbish.
This year's "Flavor" variety are the better value Taylors bulbs with three in a packet from which I got about 70 decent size cloves to plant out.Started them in modules which helped produce a good root system before planting them in my wet clayey soil.
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