Vinny's Allotment Plot

Quite a produtive couple hours on the plot today and what I planned to get done, mainly got done.

I noticed, and was pleased, that my broad beans have germinated in the pure muck bed they were planted in close to the gate!

I started by clearing a bed of cabbages and found two useable ones, one open leafed and dark green leaves,and one more tightly bound with light green/white centre.
After clearing and lightly forking in some hoss muck, I planted 50 Senshyu onion sets with about another 10 or so in the corner ofthe bed in case any of the others damped off? As soil was partly frozen with frost I put a couple of spare sheets of glass over bed to give some protection.

I then moved on to the bed next to it which has some rather nice parsnips in it, the crowns of them became evident once I had cleared the top growth. The rest of the bed had courgettes in it and I decided that after a bit of titivation I would plant elephant garlic in it. As elephant garlic needs quite a bit of room, I decided to only plant  9 elephant gatlic cloves in this area. Two of these were huge 'rounds' so I have great hopes for these. I still have loads of elephant garlic left to plant but ran out of time to get it planted today.

I then moved down the plot and harested the remains of my Gigantes runner beans, mainly for sowing next year.

After grabbing a handfrul of onions that had been drying in the greenhouse (half the glass is missing so it aint ideal!) and after having a mooch around the plot I spotted some cauli's, still with frost on them, which I harvested straight away. I also took a couple of leeks to make some leek and tattie soup and a few beetroot to boil and pickle. There were also a few brocoli spears which made there way into my carrier bag.

I was going to harvest some of the Austurian tree cabbage which appears to be doing well but decided I had enough brassicas for today.