Monday was a very pleasant day for late September, plenty of sunshine, mild and just a gentle breeze so it tempted us to visit the plot to do some tidying up and see what we had to harvest after our week away.
This year we grew some club root resistant cauliflowers, Clapton, after seeing how well they had done on Beechgrove Garden. We have a hit and miss affair with cauliflowers, mostly miss, so we gave Clapton a try.
These had produced some good cauliflowers, ten to be exact, throughout the first couple of weeks of August but I’d left the root in the ground after cutting the cauliflowers. In the mood for tidying up I decided to dig up the left over stumps. Normally I don’t have much of a root to dig up, but not with these.
These had a well established root system and not a trace of club root to be seen. It’s amazing how clean these roots came out of the ground. Our dry soil not clinging to the roots at all and just a few gentle taps on the fork and the bone dry soil fell from the roots.
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