Week 52+24 - Bed PC5

Week 52+21 - Bed PC5

Week 52+7 - Bed PC5

This bed is just waiting to be cleared up.

Apart from a few very small Swede turnips that we picked (which were reasonable tasting), there is not much else worth scavenging for.

One of the cabbages that we transplanted has bolted - quite an attractive plant.

Week 47 - Bed PC5

Some of the plants have had a late season growth spurt, but none of us want to harvest anything out of the bed after the horrible beetroot!

Week 40 - Bed PC5

The growth in this bed has really grown to a halt. A few plants struggle on, but nothing is doing well. We continue to pull up the plants that go to seed, but this bed needs much more attention. We have basically given up on it for the year.

We pulled up one of the beetroot to see how it tasted raw and it was disgusting, inedible really. This is what happens to many vegetable that or are stunted because they do not get what they need from the soil.

Week 36 - Bed PC5

Although crowded, the brassicas that we transplanted a few weeks ago seem to have adjusted well and are continuing to grow.

Week 33 - Bed PC5

We cleared out a lot of the larger beetroot to eat, the weeds and the other plants that had gone to seed, this makes the bed look more straggly. Into the spaces we transplanted a few brassica plants.

Week 31 - Bed PC5

It is hard to tell what is going on with this bed with all of the diversity of leaves and a few weeds thrown in.

Beneath the canopy, some of the roots have developed quite well, whereas others are overshadowed and stunted.

The top of the mouli radish root is visible in the middle-left of the photo.

Week 27 - Bed PC5

A small and tender turnip.

Week 25 - Bed PC5

A beautiful mix of leaves from the brassica and beetroot family.

After 5 weeks the slower growing beetroot in front being dwarfed by the faster growing spinach and brassica greens.

Different leaf textures - with a bolting spinach plant in the center.

Young plants in this polycrop. Top row (L-R): cherry radish, mooli radish, swede, turnip, kohl rabi. Bottom row (L-R):, spinach, perpetual spinach, 2 varieties of chard, beetroot, chicory, mizuna.

Week 24 - Bed PC5

Week 19 - Bed PC5

Dug bed and in prepared seedbed we scattered a polycrop mix of seeds including:

• White Globe Turnip
• Helenor Swede
• Early White Vienna Kohl Rabi
• Cherry Bell Radish
• Minowassi Radish
• Storuman Beetroot
• Rainbow Chard
• Perpetual Spinach
• Chicory
• Spinach
• Mizuna