Vegmonkey and the Mrs.

Along with garden alterations and bowser photography, we’ve found time to keep up with the planting. Gone into plugs in the mini-greenhouse today are:

Spinach (Bordeaux), Leaf Beet (Perpetual spinach), Rocket, Spring Onion (Laser and White Lisbon), Swiss Chard (Bright Lights), Salad Endive (Bianca Riccia da Taglio), Lettuce (All the Year Round and Granada).

Straight into the space in the cucurbit bed (pushing the crop rotation slightly aside) have been planted Carrot (Amsterdam Forcing 3 and Autumn King Improved) so that later in about six weeks we will have a lovely little crop of carrots, up until the first frosts, when they will have to be taken out and stored in sand or peat.

The Bordeaux spinach that we planted on 16/4 straight into the ground has done great. It has flopped a little today, with the rain, but is serving us well, with pretty much every evening meal, and will help create a couple of canneloni dishes next week. We planted it 10 cm apart each way. Bordeaux has lovely red stalks, quite lke Swiss Chard.

The bunches we cut last week have already started to sprout from the leftover stump, so we will have plenty for the summer. It has to be well watered though, as most varieties have a tendency to bolt in warm weather.

I planted a delphinium in the middle of the spinach plant yesterday, ( if you look carefully!) which should add a nice bit of colour once it flowers.