Hispi

The first of the summer cabbages are ready:

The foot is for scale! This is a pointed cabbage called Hispi. After removing the outer leaves it is very easy to shred:

We planted 6 Hispi down the allotment on 15th April and all have very little slug damage compared to usual. Perhaps the slug traps are helping, although the slug-catching brew does evaporate and needs replenishing from time to time. I kept 5 cabbages in reserve at home and these are being used to plug the gaps. Keeping the brassica theme going, we have also potted on some purple sprouting brocolli and winter cabbage (January King 3) that will be planted out soon.
It has not been all good news at the allotment:

The potatoes "Swift" caught the frost quite badly and the tops never recovered. Since they had been in 13 weeks (and they should be ready in 10 weeks) we decided to tip the bags out. All we had was about a dozen marble-sized potatoes!
At home we are inundated with lettuces. This was how the raised bed looked on 15th April:

 And this is how it looks today:

We have probably had about 10 lettuces so far. Each time one is removed we replace it with another one waiting in the wings. Today we picked the first "Black Seeded Simpson":

A pretty frilly bright green lettuce that filled two large salad bowls.