The following were sown directly into beds –
• Spinach Bloomsdale which has thick, crinkled dark green leaves, a compact habit and should be ready to harvest in 50 days. I love planting spinach because you can keep picking it forever.
• Beetroot Bull’s Blood which has very sweet roots and tasty deep purple leaves. Great in your fresh veggie juice of a morning.
• Pac Choy with succulent tasty heads ready in just six weeks. Love it in a stir fry.
The following were planted in seed trays and I will plant these out with the children when they are 4 or 5cm high –
• Broccoli Waltham which has small blue green heads and then side shoots for up to 3 months, with harvest in 70days and a yield of 3kg. The smaller finer heads and stems are nice and sweet and you can eat the whole thing.
• Cabbage Mini which has neat, crisp green golden heads in just 130 days and weighing 1.3kg/head.
The Purple Dragon Carrots planted in early February look very healthy and the pretty, ferny foliage is about 30cm high now. Carrots are supposed to do well in sandy loam so I hope my preparation of the rather light soil in this area will enable the roots to develop properly so we have nicely formed carrots. Purple Dragon Carrots apparently have more carotene and anti-oxidants than other carrots and a subtle and sweet, yet spicy flavour so I am looking forward to tasting them for the first time.
The cavolo nero (Tuscan kale) planted last year is still growing strongly. I have used Success, a caterpillar specific spray, a few times recently for Cabbage Moth caterpillar so the plants are looking good. Now it is getting cooler there will be less caterpillar activity on the cavolon nero, the cabbage and the broccoli.
Over the next few weeks I will be planting Curly Parsley and Chives with the children and their teachers. We will be sowing into small pots so the children can see them germinate, help water and feed them and then take them home.
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