Vinny's Allotment Plot

Vinny I’m envious of your Mooli, this year mine’s bolted.

Vinny I’m envious of your Mooli, this year mine’s bolted.

I find mooli is very reliant on time of sowing? I'll have to check back when I sowed it, but I remember it is much later in season than most other veg? I like it because it is similar in taste to snowball turnips but you get much more 'bang for your buck' for a given space.

Vinny i sown mine on 3rd June the same day as my Snowball turnips.

Vinny i sown mine on 3rd June the same day as my Snowball turnips.

Just checked, I sowed mine on the 24th June. I remembered that back end of June to early July is ideal time to sow in my location.

Thanks Vinny I'll sow them later next year.

Couple of pleasant hours at the plot this morning even though the weather was freezing.

Hand weeded another bed and planted it up with strawberriea. It had elephat garlic in util recently so didn't want to put alliums in it.

Took the covers of  a larger bed which I had a good crop of onions from. Hand weeded and looosened the surface. Planted it up with a load of Durham Early deedlings I had sown  a pot  earlier in the year. I had loads of seedling so planted them reasonably close together so that every other one can be used for spring greens allowing the others to heart up. Once planted and watered in I covered them with glass until they are estblished then I may take off the glass and coverwith debri netting.
Watered the toms in greenhouse and tied in a grapevine, now that it has made its way indoors.Hoed off some of the paths which were looking tatty and left the weeds on the surface.
The only things left toplant up for this season are more strawberries, more Japanese onions, more spring cabbage and some normal garlic.The elephant garlic I planted isn'r showing through yeat but I am pleased with the Jaanese onion growth and the other bed of strawberries appear to be established.

I still have spuds to lift, loads of leeks,kale, swedes,mooli and one pumpkin to bring home at some time for the grandkids!

Well its been a while but I ventured back to the plot today to ow some Aquadulce broad beans under glass. First I had to harvest the leeks thatwere taking up space in the bed I wanted to use.
After lifting the leeks and hand weeding I tickled over the surface with the fork and raked it level. The seed packet supposedly had 50 seeds in it so I made eight rows of six seeds and dibbered each position.From then on it was a simple job to drop a seed at each station and push them a couple of inches into the soil with my finger.
Once that was done I covered the bed with glass frames.

I cleaned the leeks for my Daughter and put the roots and top of the leaves in the compost bin.