We are having to cover absolutely everything with netting, I made the mistake of planting out some cauliflower and not covering them. Even with CDs hanging over them by the next day the wood pigeons had annihilated them, leaving me with some poorly looking stalks. Luckily my mum had sewn a full packet of seeds (over 100 cauliflower) so we are not short of seedlings!
Less than a week later we have a 7 foot shed, we certainly won't be short of storage space now. Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera so I will post a picture next time.
One of the most satisfying plants I have grown from seed this year must be asparagus. I saved some seeds last year from the plants I have in the garden at home. We planted them in a seed tray, not expecting much but 6 weeks later we have baby asparagus plants. I will have to wait several years before I will be able to harvest them, at the moment they are a couple of inches tall. They look like little Christmas trees in the photo but they are really soft and feathery.
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Congratulations on the first crop, hopefully first of many!
Ohh, you can fail with radish. Trust me, experience tells me that it's perfectly possible.
Interesting read. Now, who had the "Our Allotment" name first...? :-)
Yeah, radishes rock. I don't even like them all that much. If I didn't grow them I'm sure I'd never buy the buggers. But it does your heart good to see something grow so fast even the slugs can't keep up.
A word to the wise, though. Don't bother with the "Rat Tail" variety that you're supposed to grow for the seed pods. The seeds don't damn well develop. Just leave some normal radishes to go over and collect the seed pods from them. I waited all last year for my rat tails and ended up digging them up in November.
Eeeek - I thought you had trays of horsetail growing - until I read that it was aparagus, horsetail is a big problem on some plots on my allotment site, luckily I've just got thistles, brambles and fat hen!!
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