Topic: Spring

[Mrs Ava]

onions!  These are a pair of 'guardsmen'. Very green, I kept meaning to earth them up and forgot! Funny how the springies do not suffer from the white rot!  I have 3 different varities in for the summer - a red one and 2 whites.  I am planning on griddling them and having them with, yup, my lamb chop for dindins.

(Just so you don't think he is being left out, Ava will be getting the same!)

[aquilegia]

don't they look funny without the white bit!

How long did it take from sowing to harvest? Are they easy? (Mr Aqui loves them, although I don't!)

[Mrs Ava]

I have them in the plot and garden year round Aqui.  These ones, I think, went in late summer time, similar time to my leeks.  I am not bothered about the whiteness, even with my leeks, and we do get through a fair few!  They can be very quick, and you could start some now in pots or modules, a pinch of seed in each module and plant out where ever you have space, then when you want a few, you pull out a bunch!

[tim]

Like this? The second sowing. Shouldn't normally be any need to earth up.

Even they got the rot last year, so it's raised beds for them this year.