After a successful end to last season, there wasn’t much left on the plot save for the usual late crops like the squash and parsnips-some of which were corkers!
The curly kale, cavolo nero and all the sprouting broccoli that had looked so grim after being eaten by some variety of pest were worth keeping in the ground as almost all of them perked up. In fact we’ve been able to pick quite a bit of the kale and cavolo over recent months which is welcome greenery at this time of year.
Neil has been wanting to split some of the rhubarb crowns on plot 118 for some time and decided that the time was now. He split two or three of the original large crowns, using some of them to extend the line of rhubarb further down the length of the plot. The rest he planted into the open soil in the greenhouse to cover with bins to force for some early pickings. Thanks go to Bob T for this idea!
We also cleared the strawberry bed, taking off any runners that weren’t needed, as we had potted on about thirty runners earlier on and planting those out. This means that whole bed is now full of strawberries of the varieties that had such a great year this year.
We managed to move a few barrows of manure over the Christmas period before downing tools for worst of the weather and the quiet part of the year.
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