Oh rapture, we are self-sufficient in kale..........well, it is very nice in a stir-fry. deciding what to do with the cabbage does become a bit more problematic after a while though.........if we were cabbage white caterpillars this would be our idea of heaven, but we're not so it isn't. the salad has also done extremely well, we flung in a handful of Italian salad mix and rocket and it's all come up - now bolting a bit so we'll pull it up before we leave and put in some more. meantime it's wonderful to go out and gather fresh leaves every evening for dinner........runner beans progressing well up their poles and beginning to flower so beans should follow soon, and we have already eaten the first pea. leeks also doing well despite valiant attempts of cats to dig them up, and chard in beside them. rhubarb in process of being made into juice along with elderflowers from bottom of the hill.
Flower beds dug over, weeded, and spread with home-made compost. No point in any permanent planting until the windows are done so a few packets of cheap annuals thrown in to hopefully provide some temporary colour. the Great Sunflower Race is on by the side wall, several varieties so at least a few should come up if the mice don't eat all the seeds. Something called "mixed annuals", could be anything, and some dark love-in-a-mist, and something called Sweet Sultan which we've never grown before and indeed, may not be about to grow this time. depends, as always, on the weather..................
No comments:
Post a Comment