Two weeks ago the first turnip rows went in. This week the second rows of turnips went in. Three types are being used - Yates Turnips (Purple Top White Globe), half a row. The other half of the row was last years seeds harvested by me - they were originally the Yates Turnips but went to seed and so they're being tried. I have hundreds of these seeds!
Turnips - sprout 6-10 days, harvest 10-12 weeks.
The second row of Japanese Turnips is the Turnip Tokyo Cross from Kaiotes. It will, indeed, be interesting to compare the results from Yates to those from Kaiotes - both in size and taste.
Turnip Tokyo Cross - sprout ???, harvest ??? details not included!
Radishes in previous years have been a complete disaster. For two years none grew, but at the end of last year a last-ditch effort to grow some in an otherwise empty spot resulted in a bowel of small ones. This year Radish Black Round (Kaiotes). They are apparently Raphanus sativus. Two short rows. As nothing else has grown to shade the spot (yet), they should get good sun.
Radish Black Round - sprout ???, harvest 53-80 days.
Atlantic Giant Pumpkin (Kaiotes). Four, each planted in their own little pot and placed in the sun room upstairs. Once they sprot they move to the garden - probably under the tree.
Atlantic Giant Pumpkin - sprout 3-12 days, harvest 120 days.
Six Black Beauty Zucchini (Watkins) went into a white plastic six-hole propagation pot. These also went into the sun room upstairs. Again they'll go under the tree. Again in previous years no success. Two years ago they grew well outside but no fruit. Last year they did badly outside and inside no fruit because all the flowers were male!
Black Beauty Zucchini - sprout 5-10 days, harvest 5-7 weeks.
Early days yet but there's life in them there patches. Front and Middle is Cauliflower and Broccoli planted in autumn. They survive the winter and have started to take off. With luck they'll go to flower (which is the part we eat). In the background is Spinach.
Those shoots between the brassica is the garlic. The first shoots sprung up a week or two ago - and there should be more to come. They're grown from left-over sprigs from last year's crop planted close to the shortest day. In the background (above) you'll notice a few little white markers... they're marking out the radish that didn't yet sprout.
The barrels of letuces out the front are sprouting too! Pak choy, spinach and lettuce in this case, other lettuces in other barrels.
The cauliflower and broccoli in the sprouting chamber have also started to sprout. It isn't clear whether the Kaiotes cauliflowers are any good or not because they were hatched in soil and its hard to tell the grass from the cauliflowers.
