We do have some vegetable growing at the farm, although a bit less then other years. To my great disappointment, we didn't get around to planting kale last summer, which is one of my all time winter favorites. I'll be making sure that this year we'll plant kale both at the allotment and at the farm, to make absolutely sure I will get some next winter!!
Late in October we planted some winter-salad, though it was even quite late for them. The red variant doesn't seem to be doing too bad, but we will have to be patient for a little bit longer if we do not want to harvest the whole row for a single meal.
It seems we have had some uninvited guests eating them as well, maybe some mice which are currently quite abundant since the cats have moved over to different neighbors after some minor 'disagreements' with the dog.
The green salads are doing less well, and are much more victimized by the vermin ... I guess we will have to take our losses, they get the green salad and we will eat the red leaved ones.
We also planted less of the green salad, at the back of the row the leeks are visible. We grow a couple of handfuls every year, they are being harvested throughout spring.
Considering their size, I assume harvesting the broccoli also won't happen anytime soon.
Some garlic has already been planted. A tad bit early to our taste, we normally plant in February and actually earth them up like potatoes. It seems to be the only successful way of getting a decent harvest. A friendly family member that was visiting while we weren't there, planted some back in November. They don't seem to be doing to bad for now.
We will still plant our normal batch in February, at worst we will get a large garlic crop.
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