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After such a crappy year ...
After my year of diasterous no-beans and no-courgettes, I'm actually
(touch wood!) getting an astoundingly good crop of brassicas, chard and leeks! For the first time ever I've got /4/ good heads of broccoli on the go! Although in the past I've had a problem with timing and not picking at the right time - I am aware that I am meant to cut the main head and then mini heads grow off the side, but I have to time cutting them so that they are big enough but also not starting to flower! There is curly kale and cavolo nero that looks read to start picking at. The cauliflowers and romanesco and sprouts are not so happy looking, but they never are ... and I have a bed of swedes for the first time ever, which I have no idea what they're like under the soil, but they look good on top! The chard is like a forest! And Nick's mum has /just/ decided that chard is the new superfood, so I've got a bag ready to send her (which is 3 plants, and removing them caused absolutely no dent in the forest!). The leeks are leeking about all over the place ... And we still have raspberries and the occasional strawberry coming and some stragglers on the redcurrants that are still worth eating. (and the rhubarb that we didn't pick this year cos it was first year since splitting seems to think it is spring ... not sure how bad this is going to be for it, but we'll see in Feb!) -- |
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