Successes have been:
- Crystal Lemon cucumber
- Purple Top Milan turnip
- Walla Walla onion (not “hot” to eat raw)
- Garlic - various
- The early sown lettuces
- Trifetti chilli peppers
- Oro sweet peppers
- Shallots - these seem to do well, unlike their cousins, the onions.
Cropped but not spectacularly well:
- HSL tomatoes: Auntie Madge’s, Salt Spring Sunrise.
- Horsehead french beans
- Albarellodi Sarzana courgette
- Potatoes with varying success due to blight, slugs/snails
- Kalibos cabbage - one delicious cabbage out of 6+ seeds sown
- Calabrese - well, out of 12+ seeds sown, 2 broccoli heads harvestable
- Egyptian Turnip Rooted beetroot
- Broad Beans - problems with chocolate spot.
- Parsnip - well, poor germination (plus perhaps seedlings grazed).
- Carrots - various, poor germination/molluscs plus a bit of rootfly
- Kuttinger carrots - although tasty, only a few were harvestable.
- Onions, various, both sets and seeds - didn’t seem to get going, unlike those on other plots on site. Still harvestable.
- Leeks - various, mollusc damage. Should be able to harvest a few though.
- Runner beans - mollusc damage + perhaps too windy earlier in season for them to get nicely wrapped round canes.
- Peas, various.
Utter failures:
- Monarch celeriac - not had success with celeriac, this was the 3rd? variety tried
- Strawberry Popcorn sweetcorn - mollusc damage
- Coco Bicolor french beans - mollusc damage
- Marner Storing Red cabbage - cabbage root fly/aphids/mollusc damage
- Cauliflowers - various, cabbage root fly/mollusc/aphid damage.
- Matador spinach
- Pak Choi - bolted
- Uchiki Kuri squash
- Aubergines - flowered but no fruit set, both indoor and out, even with brush.
- Clemson’s Spineless okra
Now a couple of seed catalogues have arrived, I have been thinking about next year. I have also given away seeds (mainly those that didn’t succeed well). Still a couple of catalogues eagerly waited for. Potatoes will be obtained from Potato Day at Ryton near Coventry (well done last night in the football) which is to be held the first weekend in February (Saturday for members, Sunday for general public).
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