Allotment, Geocaching, Homebrew, Walks 'n Stuff

300 cloves of Porcelain Garlic from this years harvest are planted finally. 150 in the garden and 150 at the allotment.

Well after what is going to be a terrible year for almost everything at the allotment, at least the garlic is a massive success.

From 178 cloves planted, we have 173 good bulbs and only 3 had rotten. Last year from 80 about 45 had rotted… Some are fist sized and are now hanging in the garage. On Average you get 6 BIG cloves from this Porcelain hardneck garlic, so that equals ~ 1038 cloves. I plan to plant 500 of them in the autumn, not bad for an initial outlay of 30 odd quids.

Just put up my brassicas cage of debris netting, hose pipe and bamboo sticks. That should keep the pigeons and cabbage white butterflies off!!

Planted out “some” Brocolli and Cauliflowers under the netting. Broad Been plants stuck in as well…At some point in the last week or 2 I also sowed the following rows. Carrots, purple top turnip, beetroot, cos lettuce, and something else not labelled – ho hum

Going for 2 types this year.

F1 MINIPOP x 20
The baby sweet corn that is popular for stir fry and salad dishes. This variety does not require sowing in blocks, an ideal variety for mini veg, producing 5-6 cobs per plant, Normal sugar type. Sweet corn mini pop doesn’t need to be planted in blocks it does not require pollination to produce cobs.

F1 CONQUEROR x 30
Super sweet type. A late variety producing a high yield of attractive cobs, which are approximately 22cm in length. Large sweet tasting grains. Reliable crops late in the season. A high class sweetcorn, perfectly adapted to the often troublesome English summer. Plants are strong growing and average 3 cobs and with 14-18 rows of succulent kernels, per plant. Superb eating quality

Going for the old faithful of Charlotte and Desiree. However this year we have also stuck some St Edwards in. Got all the seed spuds late and VERY cheap. 2 rows of each.

Also were 4 rows of onions and I think they were Turbo and Sturon ~200-250 onions

Will be buying some Nemaslug once the weather warms up.

Just a few more but fairly common ones to pickle and dry.

Birds Eye
Jalapeño
Cayenne Long Slim

Pretty boring really.. Same toms as last year, with the exception of Roma

Alicante
Heavy-cropping Money maker type with an excellent flavour.A classic, older variety.

Gardeners Delight
An exceptionally sweet and delicious outdoor cherry tomato. Each bite sized fruit is packed full of old fashioned true tomato taste.

Golden Sunrise
Medium sized, early, sweet yellow fruits with a distinctive flavour

Moneymaker
Well known for reliably producing heavy crops. Large trusses of medium-sized fruit. Ideal for greenhouse or outdoor growing

Orange Santa
A spectacular dense, orange-skinned, cherry plum with a high sugar content and a distinctive flavour when fully rip

Tigerella
Very distinctive variety having red fruits with orange-yellow stripes. Fine flavour and heavy yielding

Roma
The tomato is a meaty, egg- or pear-shaped tomato that is available in red and yellow

A selection of tomatoes and chillies

Tomatoes : Alicante, Gardeners Delight, Golden Sunrise, Moneymaker, Orange Santa and Tigerella
Chillies : Bird Eye, Cayenne Long Slim, Jalapeño, Cherry Bomb and 1 Hot Lemon