Luscombe Street Update - Week 18

I hadn't been out to the plot for two weeks, and as the weather has warmed up over that time, I was faced with a massive amount of new growth when I arrived!  The plot has just gone ape!

Purple sprouting broccoli everywhere, the carrots and rashes have grown about two inches, the broad beans are beginning to flower, and the spinach is going crazy!  Its so great to see that just a little bit of warmth and the plants just love it :)

I harvested so many veggies today - spinach, lettuce, coriander and radishes.  I will leave the broccoli until next weekend I think as it could do with a little bit more growth before I pick the first lot. 

Root / Fruit bed

Legume Bed

Brassica Bed

Allium Bed (see the Coriander at the bottom!)

First flowers on the Broad Beans

Purple Sprouting Broccoli!

Spinach, coriander, garlic, spring onion...

Nasturtium, radish, carrot and coriander...

Luscombe Street - Week 12 - 13 Update

We continue to have a LOT of rain, which has meant that I haven't had to head out to the plot that often to make sure things are going ok.  With being so busy with other things this makes life very easy!  I headed out to the plot today and harvested a heap of veggies which was great - the spinach is going so well, along with the butter lettuces that I planted a fair while ago now.  They seem to have been a bit slow through the depths of winter, and now that the days are starting to get longer they're doing really well! 

Today's wonderful bounty! Butter lettuce, spinach and radish.

Root / Fruit Bed

Legume Bed

Brassica Bed

Allium Bed

Hawthorn Week 12 / Luscombe Street Week 11 Update

Sorry - I forgot to post photos of Hawthorn from Week 12!  Trying to catch up I'm afraid :)

This week brought on the first harvest of radish from the Luscombe Street garden!  I was incredibly excited, and just couldn't help myself.  I ate the radish straight out of the patch!  Delicious :)

We're in the depths of winter, so things are going at a bit of a slow pace, but all is going well and everything is looking very healthy.

Legume Bed

Brassica Bed

Allium Bed

Root / Fruit Bed

Radish!!!

Radish and Carrots growing along...

Butter lettuce seedlings that have sprouted

Sprouting broccoli, spinach and kale

Spinach, butter lettuce and spring onion

Garlic, spinach, spring onion and lettuce

The Hawthorn Planters - Broccoli, snow peas, nasturtium and various seedlings

The Hawthorn Planters - Beetroot

Luscombe Street - Week 10 & 11 Update

Two weeks away from the garden and the blog has flown by so fast!  We were busy with my Mum and Dad last weekend, who had come down for the weekend for Dad's birthday.  It was lovely but it meant that I didn't have time to check in on the plot, or potter away at home in the garden.

Things are going incredibly well in the Luscombe Street patch.  I pulled my first baby radish on the weekend and it tasted just delicious!  Not too zingy which was great, just very fresh and delicious.

The Legume Plot

The broadbeans continue to grow, and the lettuce has picked up as well which is great.

The Brassica Plot

The Broccoli is going really well, and continues to grow.  There are also little clusters of Coriander that have sprouted and growing really quickly which is great - hopefully we'll have all of the ingredients for an asian feast once the bok choi, spinach and broccoli are ready!

The Allium Plot

Its amazing how much has happened with this section of the plot over the past few weeks.  Coriander is growing wild, there's heaps of butter lettuces that have sprouted and are growing well.  And who would have known, but the garlic has also sprouted!   I was so worried about it because the bulbs at home sprouted after only a week or two.  The plot has taken ages! The spring onions are also growing, along with the spinach!

The Root / Fruit Plot

 Soooo exciting - I pulled my first radish on the weekend!  It was amazingly delicious - I can't wait for the rest to be ready :)  The carrots are beginning to develop their mature leaves now as well which is incredibly exciting!

 Radish, carrots and coriander

 Buttler lettuce seedlings

 Broccoli and Bok Choi

 

 Spinach doing well, along with butter lettuce seedlings :)

 Spinach, butter lettuce, spring onion and garlic shoots!

 A baby radish!  Soooo cute!

Luscombe Street - Week 9 Update

Wet, wet, wet...that's all I can say!  Whilst the plants have received more than enough water, I still make sure I pop on out every weekend and give them some well earned food (either Fish Emulsion or Seaweed Solution).  I thought it would be nice to take some closer shots of the seedlings as they're all starting to grow their mature leaves which is exciting!  The Bok Choi, Radish and Coriander are all doing really well...

 Legume Bed

 Brassica Bed

 Allium Bed

 Root / Fruit Bed

 Radishes and Carrotts

 Coriander Seedlings

Bok Choi Seedlings

Luscombe Street - Week 8 Update

It has continued to rain and rain and rain, so it has meant for a very easy time for me with looking after the plot!  Planting time has finished for a little while which means just waiting, tending and watching the plants continue to grow.  Not a huge amount to report this week as everything is continuing to grow.  The strange thing is that I haven't had much luck with lettuce this season as you can see in the photo below.  They just seem to be moving very slow, well yes actually everything is moving very slow, which I'm sure is just a feature of autumn and winter planting.  It will be interesting to see how things go next year.  I wonder whether the early to mid autumn planting has something to do with it?  Might mean I get things going a little earlier next year to ensure they have a fair bit of growth prior to the cold weather sinking in...

Legume Bed

Brassica Bed

Allium Bed

Root / Fruit Bed

The Plot

Luscombe Street - Week 7 Update

A very quick update this week!  The broad beans are going very strong - its amazing how quickly the plants grow once they have germinated.  Everything else is doing really well, continuing to grow.  It will be great once the weather warms up, and the days start getting longer.  The garden will go wild!

The Plot

Fruit / Root Bed

The carrots and radishes continue to grow away!

Legume Bed

The broad beans are doing really, really well.  Fifteen plants have germinated!

Brassica Bed

Allium Bed

The spinach is doing really well in this bed.  It won't be long until it can start to be harvested!  There are lots of little seedlings coming up - I think they may be clumps of coriander and parsley, and the odd lettuce.   Lets wait and see!