What greater accolade can a home grower get than sitting down to the freshest of carrots, parsnips and sprouts for Christmas dinner? We will be undertaking a short visit to the plot on Christmas morning cutting some seasonal greenery for a nice table centre piece and getting the veg for traditional fayer this year.
We are now officially into winter and can look forward to the days getting longer albeit very slowly. Next weekend will be time to clean out a greenhouse and get it bubble wrapped ready to receive some early January seedlings. Always a risk but worth a try none the less. Sweet peas and broccoli continue to plod on in the greenhouse, a welcome bit of colour in an otherwise bleak landscape. The winter gem lettuce have suffered in the frost unfortunately and we have lost most of the them. Interestingly the mixed leaf (better known for growing in spring and summer) has done better .
This year we challenged ourselves to growing something new and bought a pack of dried chick peas from a well known supermarket. They grew very well and formed attractive plants - read our letter in the Kitchen Garden magazine and try them yourselves.
Wishing y'all a merry Christmas xx
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