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forgot about my saffron crocus, still going but no flowers yet  :)

Mine were a no show

My Saffron crocus is only just peeping through and so is my garlic, only trouble is I cant remember which is which as they are in tubs next to each other  ::)  Have to wait til they grow a little bigger perhaps  .......... silly me for not labeling .........  yet again  lol   :-[    Also growing onions, kale and cabbage. (not labeled but in different tubs)  ;)

This is our first year, so enthusiastic and inexperienced.....

We have some onions, garlic, purplel sprouting broccoli, cabbages, winter lettuce, chard, mixed salad leaf, and a few experimental things in the greenhouse x

Just leeks, garlic, cabbages and swedes. Sadly I had to trash a whole bed of brussel sprouts - all the sprouts had blown, probably due to over enthusiastic watering during the summer (but if there's another potential reason, I'm always grateful for advice!)

Having moved my greenhouse from a gravelled area at the back of the house to a new position which has more sun and light, I now have soil beds either side of the central path so have planted a few leftover seedlings of cavolo nero and winter leuttuce and two spare strawberry plants.  The rest of the soil space has been used to plunge pots of cuttings of rosemary, yew, sarcococca and small pots of rooted twisted willow.

I have no idea whether this will turn out to be a good idea or not but they all look happy so far, as do all the other less hardy plants such as amethyst salvia cuttings and agapanthu seedlings I have sheltering in there on high shelves.  We are still experiencing a drought - since mid March - and temperatures and light levels are ridiculously high for November so it hasn't been tested yet.

Weeds  ;D

Just joking  :P

Winter onions. Brothers growing leeks. Rest I am going to manure some time soon.

Should have added that we have celeriac, cavolo nero, broccoli, purple kale, green cabbage, Savoy cabbage, red cabbage and fartichokes in the veggie plot and some beetroot and fennel which need harvesting soon. 

Gave up doing leeks, garlic and Japanese onions as the last 3 winters they have frozen to a mush.   

I'm finding purple kale extrememly tough, even the baby leaves, so won't be growing that again.  At the moment it's merely decorative and will end up on the compost heap in due course.    I just hope we get some cavolo nero before it gets frozen to death but we've been having a drought since mid March so it's growing very slowly.

Quote from: Number Six on November 13, 2011, 16:48:26
Just leeks, garlic, cabbages and swedes. Sadly I had to trash a whole bed of Brussels sprouts - all the sprouts had blown, probably due to over enthusiastic watering during the summer (but if there's another potential reason, I'm always grateful for advice!)

I do not know if water could have done that but I always thought sprouts had to firmend in well to prevent them blowing- even earthed up