Wednesday 28 June 2017

Planting out leeks

Our leeks have now reached the width of a pencil so last weekend we planted them out:
These are following on from the spring cabbage. We have approximately 60 Musselburgh leeks and 4 Autumn Giant:
You might notice a few beetroot in the foreground - we just about managed to plant around them and keep straight rows! Before planting we dug in some chicken manure pellets and watered them in with a high potash feed.
In other news the foliage on the autumn sown onions is beginning to yellow and flop over. We dug up some of each type of onion: Japanese, Snowball and Red Baron:
We also harvested another Hispi cabbage as shown in the above pic, stripped of all its outer leaves.
The first dwarf french beans are nearly ready:

These are a variety called "Purple Queen". The french climbing beans "Blue Lake" are just beginning to produce their first flowers:
The parsnips also look promising:
 And the apples on the tree are beginning to swell:
This tree is meant to be a Golden Delicious but the fruit are red! Perhaps it is a red delicious?

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