We dug up the remains of the potatoes, added a couple of buckets of well composted horse manure from the neighboring farm and prepared a fine seedbed into which we sowed two rows each of:
- Rainbow Chard - various coloured stems and leaves, baby leaves can be used for salads and cooked when fully grown
- Perpetual Spinach (Leaf Beet) - a beet variety with leaves resembling spinach which can provide valuable greens throughout the winter
- Matador (Atlanta) Spinach - all year round variety with dark green leaves
- Corn Salad D'Orlando - a hardy annual, small nutty leaves, large leaved variety with glossy green leaves
- Pak Choi - Dark leaves and crispy juicy white stems, a salad crop which can be stir fried
- Rucola Coltivata Rocket/Arugula - a refined variety with rich dark leaves and wonderful spicy taste
- Mizuna - a hardy vigorous oriental green leaf with serrated dark green leaves with a mild, slightly mustard flavour
- Endive Pancelerie (only 1/2 row planted, the rest filled in with mizuna) - bulky head variety with dark green serrated outer leaves with white hearts, similar to lettuce though slightly bitter
- All Year Round Lettuce - a pale green compact butterhead variety
As the cold weather arrives, this bed will be covered with a mini polytunnel stretched over wire hoops. In the protected environment, this bed will produce a variety of fresh greens all through the winter and into the spring.
We dug up the remains of the potatoes, added a couple of buckets of well composted horse manure from the neighboring farm and prepared a fine seedbed into which we sowed two rows each of:
As the cold weather arrives, this bed will be covered with a mini polytunnel stretched over wire hoops. In the protected environment, this bed will produce a variety of fresh greens all through the winter and into the spring.
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