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Seeds & Potatoes have arrived!

allotmentgirls — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:04:42 +0000

Our seeds and potatoes arrived… we ordered them through our allotment association from DT Brown (works out so much cheaper if you do this!).

So we’ve got:
Purple Moldovan Garlic (the bigger bulbs in the pic, the others are supermarket garlic which we’ll experiment with)
Radish – Scarlet Globe (plus two half packs left over from last year – Scarlet Globe and French Breakfast)
Onion – Red Pearl F1 & Ailsa Craig Prizewinner
Parsnip – Countess F1
Courgette – Ambassador F1
Broccoli – Bordeaux F1
Leek – Lyon 2 Prizetaker

And our potatoes, both earlies, are ‘Epicure’ and ‘Swift’.

Just off to work out what ‘chitting’ is!!

Our weeds…

allotmentgirls — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:37:14 +0000

This is what we were up against yesterday! Not too bad as most of it was that annoying ground covering tangly stuff and the half-dead weeds pulled up quite easily!

In the foreground are our leeks – now lifted and mostly eaten (Chicken & Leek Pie and Roasted Veg) – and our courgette ‘Ambassador’, which produced another whopper!

We do have a question though, when a courgette becomes a whopper is it a baby marrow??

Why Ambassador, you are truly spoiling us!

allotmentgirls — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:17:33 +0000

Sorry, very bad joke for Ferrero Rocher lovers, but our courgette plant (‘Ambassador’) is doing great and we will be spoilt with this crop

According to The Vegetable Expert book we’re ready to crop some of these – it’s recommended that courgettes are cut when they get to 4 inches to encourage more flowering, so we’ll be cutting some this week. Next year we’ll aim for more courgette plants as these really have impressed us.