New Year Tasks

Happy New Year. May 2011 feed us as well as 2010 did. In fact we are still eating frozen beans and courgettes, potatoes, carrots parsnips, celeriac, leeks, and cabbage. Still to come we have purple sprouting broccoli, spring cabbages, and possibly some late developing sprouts.

We had a very short visit to the plot today and dug up the remaining parsnips, leeks and carrots, before we have yet another freeze. Most of the cabbages have rotted as they thawed, so they have been removed, but there are still a few Killaton that may survive a week or two.

Back home, in a cold shed I have sown Onions (Bedford), Leeks (Mussleburgh), Cauliflower (All the year round), peas (Jaguar) and sweet peas. I've also sown some replacement Sutton broad beans in a pot as those planted in early November seem to have disappeared.

I'm now waiting in excitement for my Christmas present to arrive: a new greenhouse. Then I'll have to spend weeks assembling it!