Posted in Artichokes, Sowing and planting, Vegetables, tagged Artichokes on 27 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
I noted on 18th March 2007 that globe artichokes were the first seeds we sowed last year. After surviving a slug onslaught and a long winter, one of the two remaining plants has at last produced an artichoke, some 14 months later.
My plan to plant according to the phases of the moon is proving tricky [...]
Posted in Artichokes, Flowers, Harvesting, The plot, Vegetables, tagged Artichokes, Flowers, herbs, potatoes on 26 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the first week I’ve given the allotment any serious thought since the late autumn, sitting down to make a crop rotation plan and a list of tasks to accomplish before spring sets in (to follow in a later post).
Just as I was planning which potato varieties to order for this season (with suggestions [...]
Posted in Artichokes, Fennel, Flowers, Harvesting, Vegetables on 3 September 2007 | No Comments »
The fennel has bolted, before forming bulbs. (We ate some anyway.) There are also a few other veggie flowers at the plot. A radish, left to go to seed.
Very late (perhaps too late) borlotti beans - not enough sun for these, I think.
The artichokes are nicely established, though haven’t produced any flower heads in their [...]
Posted in Artichokes, Courgettes, Fruit, Harvesting, Sowing and planting, Vegetables on 1 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
I picked the first courgettes today (Defender and Tondo di Piacenza), small as they are, to try to encourage more growth in the plants, also bringing home a couple of onions and some raspberries (the raspberry canes are growing so vigorously that I struggled to get to them).
A rather large radish to the left of [...]
Posted in Artichokes, Courgettes, Fennel, Flowers, Harvesting, Rhubarb on 24 June 2007 | 2 Comments »
Courgette:
(Defender)
And fennel:
(Planted out yesterday)
We haven’t had any luck with flowers grown from seed - an entire packet of poppy seeds failed to produce a single plant and the fate of the sunflowers, munched by slugs or some other hungry pest, has already been documented. So, the appearance of these beneath one of the cherry trees [...]
Posted in Artichokes, Courgettes, Fruit, Harvesting, Vegetables on 14 June 2007 | No Comments »
Most of the courgettes were flowering by yesterday morning.
The artichokes are really beginning to grow now slugs are being kept at bay.
The beetroot, rainbow chard, French breakfast radishes, shallots and even the turnips - which seemed to not be appearing at all - are doing well.
And we ate our first cherries (no photos, they were [...]
Posted in Artichokes, Courgettes, Fruit, Harvesting, The plot, Vegetables on 3 June 2007 | No Comments »
We’d had enough.
You only need to see this to be convinced.
One of the artichokes is showing signs of recovery from the slug onslaught. Maybe the slug pellets (apparently less harmful to birds and other creatures than some types) will give it and the others a fighting chance.
Here’s another, with its little blue protectors.
It was an [...]
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