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2002 Diary Part 1 |
2002 Diary Part 2
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A month along the line, the first box is growing merrily.
Look at all that crunchy green stuff - in particular the
iceberg!
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Crunchy Carrot |
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This was one of the first carrots harvested, and one of the more
perfect ones. Others were wonky from having been overcrowded
and transplanted. Won't make that mistake again - though, it
must be said, they all taste scrumptious!
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Breakfast Radishes |
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Breakfast radishes - aka Renee's Garden "petit dejeuner".
These are traditional red radishes but there are two kinds -
round ones and long ones. They are planted in space A1.
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Sprouts, Green Onions and Easter Eggs |
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Space A2 has one of the second batch of brussels sprouts, plus one
Easter Egg transplant which is coming along at a snail's pace,
and you can just see a few wispy green onions which were added
later. Space A3 has the same, but without the green onion.
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Broccoli and Lettuce |
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Space A4 has some gourmet lettuce, a single broccoli plant, and
a couple of Easter Egg radishes. Note the "hot hat", which is a
recycled, re-usable plastic cloche. It would have been perfect if
it really were 10" square as claimed; in actual fact, the growing
area is only 8-9" so I'm not sure how much I will end up using
these. But then, the Spring is not that far away either.
This was the square doomed to be a litter box. |
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Leeks |
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The leeks are growing, slowly. (But then, that is what
they are meant to do.) When I sniff the earth, there is now
a distinct scent of something oniony and strong. Spaces
A5 and A7 have leeks. I don't think they will be ready in
January (per packet guesstimates) though.
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Pak Choi |
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I also put the pak choi under plastic. They seem to be nice,
healthy little plants.
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Iceberg |
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Those have really come along since the last picture! I have
been having a tad of trouble with mildew (?) and a little
spider seems to think that these lettuce are a great place to
spin a web. I suppose if he has food, the lettuce has less bugs.
They are crowded though; I didn't realise that they would be so
big (duh). At least one of them seems to be finally forming a
head...
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Small Pots |
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Some of the small pots which hang around on the tatty
old potting table. (I think Don and his Dad made it,
long ago.) There's the washing bowl (see below),
a few carrots (look at the fence, there are more
hanging there) and the catnip is in the "terracotta"
one.
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Floor Pots |
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These are the extra containers that live on the deck floor,
being moved around in particuarly violent rain storms.
You can see the washing up basin used for green onions and
carrots, and a bit of gourmet lettuce which just landed there
somehow. Beside it is the feeble last Easter Egg radish from the
first planting, and the growing-happily red onions.
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Iceberg, Turnips and Sprouts |
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Some turnips and iceberg in pots, with a couple of
brussels sprouts plants hiding in the middle.
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Peekaboo Turnip! |
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Hidden under all those leaves was one of several little turnips.
The first one was eaten for dinner on Christmas Day.
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