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Experimental Overload
At last we have a spell of fine settled weather with the forecast suggesting it might well last into next week. Monday and Tuesday were pleasantly mild and dry with plenty of sunny spells.
One of the beds doing well down on the plot is our over winter brassica bed.
This bed is a mixture of cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers all intended to produce early next year when fresh vegetables are a little bit scarce. Early in the season when the bed was dug over I experimented by planted it up with a green manure crop of Phacelia. This was dug in just as it was coming into flower in early June.
Not content with experimenting with the green manure crop we decided to use a weed suppressant at planting time to cut down on weeding and hopefully give the brassicas a better start by not having to compete with any weeds.
This is how the brassicas looked on the 05 August just after being planted out. They’ve
certainly grown well through August and are looking like we may be in for some good
brassicas. It’s the first time for several years I’ve grown my late brassicas from
seed, relying on bought-
I guess it’s probably a combination of several things that’s help produce some good plants. Now they just have to go on to produce some tasty cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers.
Autumnal Morning
For the last few days we’ve had some fine weather with plenty of sunshine and mild throughout most of the day. This morning however had a distinctly autumnal feel to it as the temperature overnight fell to a chilly 8.4°C and it took a while in the morning to warm up.
Last autumn I bought a rhubarb crown of Stockbridge Arrow and it spent last winter in the greenhouse in a large pot.
The crown didn’t look too good at the end of winter and it was almost discarded as dead until this tiny shoot appeared at the beginning of April. Since then the crown has grown well through summer and was planted out into the allotment today.
It will probably need a couple of years to establish itself before any stems can be harvested