Planting for winter

The last week has seen a bit of action down on the allotment plot, after a number of weeks of allotment avoidance.  Since I planted the Xmas potatoes back in early September, a combination of rain and laziness has kept me away, until last week Monday.  I am “giving” one of the beds on our plot to a friend who can’t plant any vegetables at home for big dog reasons, and also because I quite fancy the idea of having a friend to weed and water with sometimes.  So we headed down to the allotment last week Monday for her to take posession of her bed, and I started with clearing the sweetcorn, horrible celery, courgette and cucumber plants.  Pete mowed the paths on Saturday, and I planted Autumn Champion onion sets and White Lisbon onion seeds to overwinter.  I also put in some winter hardy Chinese cabbage to harvest in December, and some mustard greens.  Along with the winter lettuce (can’t remember which now) that is doing pretty well, we should have lots of greenery on our plates for the next few months.  We also still have some of our Kilaxy and red cabbages, as well as chard and perpetual spinach ready for harvesting now.  This is the first winter that we’re trying to keep our crops coming through the cold months.  Why not?

Written by The Little Green House on October 11th, 2006 with no comments.
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