Vegetable and Fruit Growing on an Allotment in Edinburgh
Thursday, 28 February 2019
Winter's Last Fanfare?
Purple Sprouting Broccoli - Rudolph
This is one of four plants in the school garden. I am surprised that it doing so well. Last autumn an overenthusiastic child mistook it for a weed and uprooted it. It was quite adolescent at about 18 inches high but I decided to retrieve it from the compost heap and plant it again: brassicas are transplanted when very young so why not give it a try. All the same I am gobsmacked that this has done best of all out of four specimens.
Some other overwinterers are also thriving in the balmy conditions
Winter Purslane
Land Cress
There is some less voluminous lambs lettuce in there too.
And bouncing back, after looking very bedraggled over the winter months
Maybe the shock tactic worked for the broccoli. I’m not going to try itb though!
ReplyDeleteJust a thought - when I replanted this I also supported it with a well driven stake. Maybe it liked the rock solid support.
DeleteThe broccoli looks so lovely...
ReplyDeleteIt is a real treat at this time of year.
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