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Wet weather and wind!

Posted by Matthew Pearce on 23rd November 2009
Anne's Garden Blog

Is there any pleasure in going in the garden when it’s throwing it down with rain?

Well no, not to me, but wind – that’s another matter! I love windy weather. There is something so refreshing about walking the dogs being blown about by something you can’t see! I love it.

So I have been thinking and reading whilst it’s been raining.

cold frame

I have strung the raised bed with the frame on top into the 12” squares. I popped round to Access Garden Products and noticed they had already put all their pots of strawberrys into their frame for the winter, so I did mine when I arrived home. But a couple of them I decided to plant into the frame as Matthew said that the frames were used for strawberries originally. I have experimented by planting the runners from the mother plant into the next 12” square. I also had some cuttings of rosemary I had potted up, and I wondered if they would be happy in the frame, and maybe keep pests that don’t like rosemary away! I don’t know. This is the novice bit of me having a go.

Being the impatient type I noticed in the Marshall’s catalogue a section on Micro-leaf vegetables. They say they need to be harvested at a very young tender stage in the growing process, usually at cotyledon or first true leaf stage. Now, I have grown sprouting seeds in the past. I grew them in a jam jar. Sprouting seeds are high in nutrients and are classed like a ‘power food’. So these caught my eye.

Marshall’s say they are full of nutrients and are very attractive. They are easy to grow – I’m interested! And they are ready to eat in 7 – 14 days. They could be a garnish with my lettuce on Christmas Day!

I have chosen Broccoli because this packet said they are super nutritious green sprouts containing high levels of anti-cancer chemicals. A subject very close to my heart. I know free radical damage is a large contributor to Cancer, so order I did.

Tomorrow is supposed to be windy and hopefully dry, so I am going out to plant the other onions sets – white ones this time and tidy the rest of the garden up a bit. I will sow these nutritious little Broccoli and report back to you.

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