Wonderful how rain can invigorate plans in a way that tapwater never can. Must be all the nitrogen or something. I grow everything for a salad except cucumbers.
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| Lunch |
I haven't really grown carrots before - not successfully. This year I bought a cheap packet of economy carrot seeds and put them in a pot. They are wonderful, when picked young, with my salads. I now have other pots of carrots growing, at different stages. I plant a garlic clove in the centre. The idea is to keep away carrot fly. Don't know if it works or not but the carrots seem healthy enough.
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| Young Carrots with a garlic clove in the centre |
To be honest, I cannot remember a time when things have grown so well. This year we are getting plenty of sunshine here in West Yorkshire (UK), I think, as well as rain. The temperatures are decent, and everything in my garden is quite happy. Especially me! My lettuces are growing so fast that even I, who can eat a whole one in one sitting, cannot keep up. Perhaps I shouldn't grow so many? :D I have Webbs Wonderful on the go, as well as rocket and red lettuce which I just keep picking at.
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| Webb's Wonderful lettuce and beetroot |
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| Rocket and Red Lettuce |
I love the courgettes that I am growing, not just because of the lovely courgettes but the flowers are so pretty.
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| Soleil F1 Hybrid courgette |
I watched a cookery programme the other evening and I learned something. I had not known that you could eat pea shoots. I had some sugarsnap peas (dried seeds) that I had left over from last year and frozen and I just did not have room to plant peas this year and take up all that space. But this guy on the cookery programme was growing peas and eating the shoots as they germinated; rather like you would eat bean shoots. So, I thought I would give it a whirl. I will let you know how it goes.
