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Very short rows!

allotmentgirls — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:15:48 +0000

More weeding and clearing, but dug over a small section (ok, a very small section) enough to plant a very short row of Tom Thumb lettuce and an equally short row of Radish – French Breakfast 3.

I know it’s rather late for lettuce, but thought it was worth a go. The radishes should be fine

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!!

Radishes Galore!

allotmentgirls — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:58:13 +0000

We harvested the rest of the radishes – a whole carrier-bag full!

When we sowed the seeds for the radishes we used the entire two packets in three short rows… little did we realise that radishes pretty much have a 100% success rate! Note for next time: sow 2 or 3 seeds per inch.

Despite their over-inhabited growing conditions there are some super specimens! Our radishes were ‘Scarlet Globe’ and ‘French Breakfast’ – both are very tasty, but our favourite is ‘Scarlet Globe’ because they just look brilliant!