At last we have a spell of fine settled weather with the forecast suggesting it might well last into next week. Monday and Tuesday were pleasantly mild and dry with plenty of sunny spells.
One of the beds doing well down on the plot is our over winter brassica bed.
This bed is a mixture of cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers all intended to produce early next year when fresh vegetables are a little bit scarce. Early in the season when the bed was dug over I experimented by planted it up with a green manure crop of Phacelia. This was dug in just as it was coming into flower in early June.
Not content with experimenting with the green manure crop we decided to use a weed suppressant at planting time to cut down on weeding and hopefully give the brassicas a better start by not having to compete with any weeds.
This is how how brassicas looked on the 05 August just after been planted out. They’ve certainly grown well through August and are looking like we might be in for some good brassicas. It’s the first time for several years I’ve grown my late brassicas from seed, relying on bought in plug plants as an easy option so this was the first part of the experiment.
I guess it’s probably a combination of several things that’s help produce some good plants. Now they just have to go on to produce some tasty cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers.
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They've certainly grown well. It looks like you'll be eating well over winter.
ReplyDeletewow! Thats a healty looking crop.
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ReplyDeleteI never like to count my cabbages until they're cooked.
Hi Ana
I've just got to keep them looking healthy through winter.
Admirable - Have to admit I missed the boat for the overwintered brassicas - PSB, Kale. My brussels are looking very healthy though - pity I'm not so keen on eating them.
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