Cascades

We made one visit to the allotment last week. 

We needed some fresh parsnips and leeks and found a couple of tiny cabbages. A video is posted here.

We were really pleased with the parsnips. You may remember that we started the parsnips on damp kitchen roll and 'sowed' the seeds once the tiny roots had sprouted, Some of the roots grew longer than we would have liked before we could get them in the ground, so we were concerned that they would develop multiple roots. This doesn't appear to have happened as all the roots lifted last week had just the single tap root. For some reason, the row along the edge of the bed seemed to suffer from canker. Other than being sown earlier and the position of the row there had been no difference in how they have been treated. It will be interesting to see whether the parsnips growing along the other edge of the bed are similarly affected.

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