Week 18 - Bed EX6 Planting

This bed was prepared the previous week and we used the southern section of the bed as the brassica seedbed for all of the plots. We sowed one short row each of (listed from north to south):

• Vertus Savoy Cabbage - medium late variety with round flattish heads, medium green, well curled and frost hardy
• Waltman Calabrese Broccoli - autumn maturing, with a small central head followed by large number of side shoots
• Cour di Bue Summer Cabbage - large pointed heart variety, maturing in early autumn, light green in colour
• Red Drumhead (Cabeza) Cabbage - large, solid, ball shaped, deep red variety to harvest from summer to autumn
• Holland Late Winter Cabbage - large, white, solid, hardy variety
• Gortahork Cabbage Winter - large drumhead landrace variety form Co. Donegal, which grows up to football size and is very hardy
• Darkmar 21 Brussels Sprouts - a early variety producing large, dark green sprouts in Oct-Dec
• Balbriggan Brussels Sprouts - an Irish landrace variety, 1m tall producing large sprouts with no bitterness
• Pacifica Calabrese/Broccoli - green variety producing a small central head followed by side shoots in late summer to autumn
• Red Spear Sprouting Broccoli - a high yield early variety, harvest from mid Feb with many side shoots
• Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli - early variety producing many purple spears from early March
• Thousand Headded Kale - a tough, extremely vigorous variety growing up to 1.2m
• Pentland Brig Kale - a very frost hardy and heavy cropping leafy winter veg with a distinct flavour, with leafy side shoots and spears like broccoli

To the north of the brassica seedbed, we planted 6 rows of leeks which will also be transplanted into other beds in the summer:

• Lancia Leek (1 row - south) - a productive variety which can be harvested from mid July to Oct
• Wintercrop Leek (2 rows) - a late, hardy variety that stands well until April, with large stems and dark green leaves
• Monstruoso di Carentan (3 rows - north) an early variety that can be harvested from Oct to Jan.