Winter Vegetables to the Fore

Thursday began November with yet another cool and cloudy day with temperatures below average for the start of the month.

We made our first visit to the plot for just over a week as we'd run out of fresh vegetables and Sue had some wallflowers and tulips to plant. I thought it was about time to try some of our Autumn King carrots. As I lifted them out of the soil, these looked like good carrots. The ground remains very wet and the carrots needed a wash to reveal their true conditions. No carrot fly and no slug damage so just the flavour test remains.

Whilst in testing mode I lifted the first of this year's parsnips, Gladiator, and they too after a quick wash looked to have produced some decent sized roots for winter. The cauliflowers are probably the last of this year's crop although I left a couple of small plants in the ground to see if they will eventually grow to produce a head. The cabbages too are the first of our autumn variety Kilaton. Our summer crop of Golden Acre are  now finished.

To finish off my experimental visit I lifted a couple of our celeriac roots. It's stretching the imagination a little to call them roots. They look as though they need potting on for next year. A complete failure again so I'll have to try something different and see if I can do better next year.

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