3 posts tagged “garden”

The Veg beds are doing OK. Some success and some glaring failures.

Great: Mizuna, Spicy Leave mix, Mustard Spinach, Mibuna.
Special: The first broad beans eaten raw out the pod, Broad bean and Pea shoots, young raw turnip leaves.

Promising: Peas, carrots, parsley

Disappointing: Kohl Rabi (No germination whatsoever), Basil bush, Haricots coco, Chard (because they got infected with a fungus).

So far we have Basil, Oregano, Chard, Jerusalem artichokes, borlotti beans, peas, radish,  ornamental rhubarb (Ooops), potatoes, runner beans, parsley, broad beans.

Tomorrow:
Various kinds of salads (rocket, mizuna, little gem...), tomatoes, salsify, scorzonera, kohl rabi, savory and asparagus*, spinach.

* hoping for a 2011 harvest!

We have completed our four vegetable beds thanks to some wood from the Timber centre and a big trailer load of quality top soil / manure mix from Picadilly gardens. Assembling the beds was a simple affair. Four fence posts, two planks screwed on each side and bob is your uncle. We left 10 cm worth of fence post sticking out to allow for the installation of some wire netting to keep birds and cats away from the beds. This latter point is a sore point as our cat box is pleased to see four large cat litters springing up in the garden. I love him but he'd better keep out ;-)

So this afternoon, we are going to the garden centre to get some chicken wire netting, two rhubarbs crowns, compost, strawberry plants and peas.