Planting for spring 2010

Plot 1 now has small broad beans in position for a fighting start in the spring.. complete with chicken wire cage to stop them running away. Plot 4 has 4 purple sprouting broccoli plants, looking very healthy and about 18 ins high at the end of October.

There has been a problem with the best cabbage I have ever grown (still in Plot 3), none of us could bear to harvest it as it looked so superb, but now it has TEETH MARKS in it.. either left by ravenous monks or wretched roe deer..damn them!

Chard rules OK..............

......and kale; both have been on the menu this week, delicious. two small raspberry canes are in, offshoots from our garden in Edinburgh, and rhubarb from Sussex. Broad bean seedlings also planted. the purple sprouting broccoli look fantastic and we have built a deer cage for them as it appears that the beasties have snaffled some of the cabbage............weather a bit too wet this week to do much in the garden, roll on spring!................