Where are the strange root things? They were planted out end of last month but no sign (?) of anything apart from weeds (and raspberries) coming up in the “strange veg” patch. I hope the Jerusalem artichokes, ulluco, oca, yacon, chinese artichokes haven’t all rotted.
Also, where are all my carrot/parsnip/beetroot seedlings from various sowings? I think I can see some beetroot and carrots germinating but nothing from the newspaper seed tapes (not even the radish as markers for the parsnip rows germinated..). The bulk sowing of broad beans have practically all germinated and look good. OH’s leaf beet and spinach and radish have also germinated. I also spotted a single lettuce seedling.
Yesterday, OH sowed two root beds with various carrots (Early Nantes, Chantenay, Flakkee, Amsterdam Forcing), beetroots (Ukranian, Detroit Globe, Boltardy), Swede (Marian), and planted out some bought Celeriac seedlings. He also planted out some flower seedlings plus some bought plants (a nice red pansy, dianthus, snapdragons, and son wanted chives and lavender down the plot). I planted out some brassicas, 3 Primo Golden Acre & 3 Kalibos & 4 small Greyhound cabbages, 3 Romanesco things, 3 Darkmar Brussels and 4 rather pathetic looking All the Year Round cauliflowers (they look only marginally better than the ones I put out of their misery last month). Those cabbage root fly collars are fiddly and almost lethal to the seedlings as they seem to chop off the first leaves and in previous years, have snapped the stem. I also planted out some module sown spinaches - 12 Bordeaux, and 12 Medania (which were planted out among the direct-sown ones).
The overwintered broad beans have flowers on, but no sign yet of little pods.
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