Sunday saw us harvest our first vegetable crop of the new season. We decided it was time to cut the largest head of our calabrese Aquiles.
Aquiles was part of our early brassica collection from DT Brown which arrived as plug plants at the end of March.
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| Early Brassica Collection 29 March 2018 |
The plug plants were potted on and spent the next month in the greenhouse growing on before, they were transplanted into their final positions in the allotment.
They were planted out on 29 April 2018 and were covered with environmesh to prevent damage from wood pigeons. Since then they've needed plenty of watering. It's almost two months since they were planted out and under average conditions I'd have expected around 100mm or 4in of rainfall. However, this year it's been very dry and since they were planted we've had 23.8mm (0.94in) or around a quarter of what we might expect. At one stage in the middle of May I wasn't at all convinced we were going to get much of a crop off them but over the last few weeks they've definitely put on a bit of a spurt.
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| Cabbage - Regency |
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| Cauliflower - Helsinki |
Our cabbages are almost ready for cutting but the cauliflowers look like they will be a week or so before they are ready. Hopefully, they'll be ready as the calabrese is finishing.
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Lovely update thank you for sharing and blessings to you both
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