Monday 28 April 2008

Week 52+18 - Bed PC3 Planting

Finished digging this bed and added 1 barrow of well rotted horse manure. Once the bed was prepared I sowed a brassica seedbed with one row each of the following (listed from North to South):
  • Snowball Cauliflower
  • Deakin F1 Cauliflower
  • Waltham Calabrese
  • Pacifica Calabrese
  • Darkmar 21 Brussels Sprouts
  • Balbriggan Brussels Sprouts
  • Vertus Cabbage
  • Premier Cabbage
  • Marner Lagerret Cabbage
  • Holland Late Winter Cabbage
  • Gortahork Cabbage
  • Dottenfelder Cabbage
  • Cour di Bue Cabbage
  • Red Spear Sprouting Broccoli
  • Purple Sprouting Broccoli Late
  • Purple Sprouting Broccoli Early
  • Uncle John's Kale
  • Thousand Headed Kale
  • Red Russian Curled Kale
  • Ragged Jack Kale
  • Pentland Brig Kale
  • Niki's Cut and Come Kale

Week 52+18 - Bed PC2 Planting

In the south 2/3rds of the bed we had planted a mix of overwintering onion setts. Into the spaces I planted additional setts of:
  • Red Baron Onion Setts
In the north third portion of the bed we mixed 1/3 barrow of horse manure and into a fine seedbed we sowed a Leek seedbed consisting of one row each of:
  • Verdonnet Leek
  • Wintercrop Leek
  • Monstruoso di Carentan Leek
  • Lancia Leek
  • Hannibal Autumn Mammoth 2 Leek
  • Ardea Leek