We’re about to start building a shop at our gate. Customers may see some hole digging activity at Croft Share pick up time and the caravan has moved. Moving an old caravan with seized up wheels isn’t very easy. It briefly slipped into the ditch and had to be levered out. We’re getting some new gates, creating a customer zone and building a kind of bus shelter honesty shop. There will be extra veg to buy from there, jam and possibly plants. The fruit crop is looking good so the jams will be blackcurrant, gooseberry and possibly plum.
I’ve finally finished the main block of planting, all the spuds are up and the first brassicas are doing well. I planted two beds of carrots, one looks good. The other looks as though all the baby carrots were devoured by something. I’ll give it a week, then re-sow. For such a ubiquitous vegetable, carrots are really tricky to grow!
This week’s customers will have the first bona fide Summer vegetable. The good weather has produced lots of sugar snap peas, they always add a nice crunch to a salad.
There are some tiny baby French beans in the Polycrub so that’s a bit of a shocker! The earliest I’ve had a French bean in the past is the last week of June. At this rate there will be decent sized French beans in the next week or so.
In July we’ll be moving away from lots of leaves in the direction of lots of legumes! The garlic will be ready soon too, possibly next week, I’ve plenty of salad leaves sown, the kohl rabi is growing and currently not bolting! It’s not growing very fast but maybe one day there will be some kohl rabi in the veg bags. It is supposed to be a very easy, quick vegetable, it just doesn’t seem to like me.
This week’s Small Share (week eight) has salad leaves, cavolo nero, Spring greens, sugar snap peas, coriander and onions/Spring onions.