Salade du jour

First Crunch

The radishes have germinated and matured quickly, giving a good peppery crunch to a salad. Unfortunately, a few of them have already been nibbled a little by something else.

Daucus carota

 

 Haven't seen a carrot look like this before; left in the ground from last year overwinter, it's put on a lot of growth above ground this year and is now in flower.

Potato Salad

 

                                    Just add mayonnaise

Trap crop

Flea beatles munch on radish leaves but leave the crop unaffected and are distracted from other crops.

Last Of May

Pond Sedge - Carex Riparia



Little and Large - Radish duo



Got any biccies ?

Early Broad Beans

Radishes & Rhubarb

Radish seeds

Saving a few pennies by collecting radish seeds from the dried pods.

12 + 12

Fine weather around the autumn equinox, giving raspberries and sweetcorn the chance to ripen and the courgettes, runner beans and sunflowers the will to keep producing flowers. Short of space to plant some early onion sets, I took down the cobra beans, putting the last of the green and black pods to dry, then dug over the ground, raked it, firmed it down a bit and planted the sets about 6" apart. That's 50 in, another 150 to go !

Pulled the last rhubarb of the season, a bit late, but everything has been this year.

Took home a couple of baby sweetcorn cobs, a courgette, some chard, radishes, runners and kale.

Spring Harvest

Harvested artichokes, broad beans, lettuce, rocket, radishes, peas.