The allotment annexe

Well, what with the political thread about Bristol's allotment strategy and the fact that it stopped raining for long enough today for me to visit the plot, I now have a bit of a backlog of vaguely post-worthy material (if you set the bar of expectation low enough). However, the first thing that comes to mind is that the allotment annexe - the extra couple of beds the Uber Gaffer gave us during our short fall in the summer - has been under represented on this site.

At the moment it looks like the photo above; full of spring cauliflowers and leeks, and in need of a going over with a hoe.

We've never had much success growing cauliflowers. We got curds when we first tried about a decade ago on our first plot when we lived in Oxford. However, as soon as we cut the curds open they were full of cabbage white caterpillars.

We've never managed to get cauliflowers to work in Bristol. This year's crop is the most promising yet - actually, that's true of all brassicas. As they're a spring variety, we're keeping our fingers crossed that if we do get curds they might even turn out to be bug free.

We have a lot of leeks - I think we ended planting a couple of hundred - but they're all teeny-weeny. I suspect the very dry summer and the fact we were pretty late planting them out didn't help. Nonetheless, they taste good.