Week 19 - Bed DD5 Planting

This bed was double dug this week, incorporating some chopped sod between the two soil layers, and into it we planted a variety of fast growing crops (listed from north to south):

• Sugar Loaf (Pain de Sucre) Chicory (30 stations covering 20% of the bed) - a large leafy self blanching variety, excellent winter salad crop with a bitter taste
• Matador (Atlanta) Spinach (15 stations covering 20% of the bed) - an all year round variety with dark green leaves
• Rucola Coltivata Rocket/Arugula (25 stations covering 20% of the bed) - a refined variety with rich dark leaves and wonderful spicy taste
• Larno Kohl Rabi (20 stations covering 25% of the bed) - a pale green variety with swollen edible stems, which can be grown outside from spring to autumn
• Mooli Minowase Radish (25 stations covering 15% of the bed) - a long large crisp tender white radish variety with a sweet mild flavour, which is very quick growing

All of these crops will do well if we get cooler conditions with more rain than we have had recently.