Allotment seed sowing, before it rains yet again
There was no rain today so I planted some seeds. If we have more heavy rain tomorrow the seeds could end up all over the place. I have an awful feeling global warming is going to give the UK more rain and less sun - not exactly the Mediterranean climate I’d mentally prepared for. I’ve put my gravel gardens on hold.
I planted:
- Turnip Bianca Lodigiana
- Beetroot Chioggia
- Carrot Adelaide F1
- Spinach Monnopa
- Perpetual Spinach (Spinach Beet)
Everything in the allotments is doing well. There are cabbages ready to harvest (planted last year). I picked some Mirabeau radishes, evicting a large slug from the row as I did so - Yuk.
I grow shallots but must confess that I tend to use them as spring onions while they are young. I’ve never had much use for them - being more of a “take a large onion” sort of cook. I find them fiddly to deal with and having pickled them once I wasn’t inspired to do it again. As spring onions though they’re great.
I’ve also got lots of flat leaved parsley - so I’m scrabbling through the recipe books for recipes that start with “Take a bucketful of parsley and……” I’ve frozen it before but it seemed to lose all texture and taste. I think I might try a parsley pesto and put it in jars. That should get rid of a small bucketful at least.
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I was looking forward to Mediterranean gardening too - peaches, figs… but I think you are right, we will just get the rain in summer.
Lovely produce
Karen
Greetings from Mediterranean!
We have strange weather too. It looks like autumn today.
But honestly, I hope for rain. Mother earth needs the water here.
Last week farmers from North Greece had problems with hail which destroy their crops. Global Warming? Maybe…
Your parsley is beautiful, If you try to make parsley-pesto tell us about the taste. I have a huge basil with big leaves in a pot, but I didn’t try to make pesto (yet).
Grief, that’s a lot of parsley.
Check out some Lebanese recipes, they always go crazy for flat leaf parsley.
Hey there! You could try making Tabbouleh, a middle eastern salad that uses lots of parsley. You’d want a food processor too, to cut it up all fine. Don’t we all want that Mediterranean climate? We just need some rain here in northern SK, Canada…send some over!
Thanks all - I think it will be Tabbouleh sometime soon (usually I don’t have enough parsley but no excuses now!)
loved your pictures—-vegetables look so crisp and fresh.it is hot here in the southern california desert–want to plant herbs but will have to wait. check out my site on tuesday—i took a fantastic onion out of the garden and took pictures.
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