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Author: Lois Prior

GreenWight’s Allotment Diary: Radishes A Go-Go

Wednesday, 10th June, 2009 at 8:01 am, Isle of Wight

Environment, Green Issues, Horticulture, Newport

Oo-er missus, look at the size of me radishes!!

GreenWight’s Allotment Diary: RadishingI am glad that I like radishes and the ‘gerls’ (guinea pigs) like radish tops, cos I am all radished out!

The ones up the allotment are still profuse and the ones in my salad trays are HUGE! (see picture).

As well as the radishes, the rocket has taken off well (nothing as delish as fresh, fresh rocket) but the other stuff, lettuce and beetroot, doesn’t seem to have done so well.

I reckon they don’t like the radishes. I’m now planting the salad trays without the radishes to see how it goes – experimenting is something I enjoy about growing my own.

The strawberries are fruiting profusely, giving me around 2kg of fruit a week. I’ve made strawberry jam with the excess using my trusty bread machine – much cleaner than making it in a saucepan, although the bottling process was as messy as ever, still I now have enough jam to keep even the busiest cream tea parlour happy.

As well as strawberries, I now have ripe redcurrants. These were stripped from the bush in previous years by birds, so now they get covered in a fleece bag as soon as they have finished flowering, keeping the growing berries safe. Other things that are going on down ‘on me allotment, son’ include; potatoes on verge of flowering, tomatoes flowering, raspberries fruiting not yet ripening, garlic flourishing, carrots not-to-be-seen (yet again!) and much more.

Next week’s blog will be delayed as I am busy at the Festival, so I am hoping for dry weather but also hoping for some rain overnight to water the veggies. I might try to do a ‘how healthy can you eat at the Festival’ blog next time, so watch this space!



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