Look what turned-up!

Much to our delight, the turnip seeds we planted the other day have begun to sprout up in a neat little line at the front of our plot.

We'll probably leave them here for a few weeks, then start spreading them out, and giving to our allotment neighbours, once they get a bit tougher. Probably going to put them in place of the onion patch, most of which are almost ready for harvest.

No sign yet from any of the other seedlings though: the race is on!

By the way, check out a few of the health benefits of turnips here, including that turnip juice has twice the amount of vitamin C as orange juice...WOW! maybe doesn't go quite as well with a croissant though.

Seedy business

The first task today was to round up all the stray/wild baby carrot plants and beetroots throughout the plot and herd them into neat rows in the front bed. Hopefully here they'll reward our caring efforts with thick chunky veg in a few month's time. Also gives us space to work and a fresh start on the over-grown beds.

After this, we rigged up 3 or 4 pea plants to the wigwam, along with a few garlic seedlings being strewn throughout the plot to ward off bugs and stuff apparently (in other words to clear out my fridge 'cause my housemate is getting annoyed).

A kind neighbour donated us a bunch of cabbage plants/beetroots, which we slapped in to trenches behind the onion patch.

We dug neat line after neat line and sewn in seeds of various plants including celery, turnips, parsnips, radishes, leeks, cauliflower and broccoli. These have varying harvest times, ranging from 3 months up to a year (broccoli). I was never such a broccoli fan, so can wait that long quite happily.

Anyway, we're starting to get a huge variety now. Kind of like a vegetarian Noah's Ark if you like!