April is a very busy month on the farm, we're still harvesting lots of over-wintered crops as well as sowing and planting the new season's ones. Although the South East, like many other areas, is officially in drought, we have had enough rain (but not too much) during March and April to enable us to get our potatoes planted, as well as most of our onions and garlic. We've sown spinach and salad direct, and transplanted early cabbages, kales, chard and others.
It's that time of year when our over-wintered greens just want to spread their seed, so they head skywards, looking very pretty as they flower, and very tasty in our stir fry bags. First to go are the brassicas:-
 |
| Majestic Red Russian Kale in flower |
 |
| Red curly kale growing skywards (and dancing, or just a windy day) |
 |
'Green-in-snow' mustard leaf, going to seed but we already have
new sowings of salad leaves ready to harvest from a polytunnel |
 |
| Salad rocket in flower (the flowers are very tasty in a salad) |
 |
The over-wintered spinach and chard will go to seed soon too but we have
some time to harvest the new spring regrowth first
|
T
 |
| Lettuce transplanted in a polytunnel, and rows of newly sown salad leaves |
 |
New Season's Pak Choi ready to harvest.
(I'm having a few problems uploading photos to this post, so part 2 of April goings on to follow soon!)
|
No comments:
Post a Comment