Moon Trial GZ Harvest

Today I dug up and weighed GZ

Sown on Jan 3rd

Harvested on July 3rd

6 months in the soil

Weights prior to sowing:

9, 13, 6, 8, 9

Weights at harvest 

89, 129, 29, 192, 186

Overall increase in weight 1386%

Clove number 2 had split and created 2 completely new and separate bulbs of garlic. Alternatively, a fluke clove found its way in and grew in the exact correct place; as no cloves had disappeared from the rest of the trial. This was the heaviest clove of the original selection of cloves [there were 3 that weighed 13g]. Clove 3 was the smallest of the final bulbs from the last 2 batches of sowings. 

Onions

Need I say more. Very happy. 

HSL Peas

These are close ups of the 4 peas for the HSL trial, all taken on 15th June 

Firstly, Clarke's Beltony Blue

Hugh's Huge
Simpson's Special
Alderman

Moon Trail GE Harvest

On the 20th of June I dug up and weighed GE

Sown on Dec 21st

Harvested on June 20th

6 months in the soil

Weights prior to sowing:

9, 4, 7, 10, 6

weights at harvest

166, 256, 151, 197, 144

Overall increase in weight 2954%

Alot of bulking up compared to last month's harvest; interesting that the smallest clove in the whole trial [randomly picked from the 50 cloves in a bag], gave the highest final weight and fattest bulb thus far. 

15th June 2009 - lottie pics

Peas and beetroot, with an allgreen courgette on the corner
Peas with dwarf beans 
My onion bed
Sweetcorn with 2 winter squashes and a bit of piping that will be filled with sand and carrot seed very soon
Onions - autumn sown from sed

stuff flowering in and around the seed bed

B&Q alliums were going for a song, so I popped them in the corner - look nice against the self sown poppies

Poppies from a different angle, with some chives

Gooseberry Pax, looking good - should turn red hopefully

Potatoes - Kestrel - just enough to go in last night's curry

Gonna be needing this.

http://cookalmostanything.blogspot.com/2008/07/zucchini-falafel.html

HSL Pea Trial

Progress on the pea trial

These are the Clarke's Beltony Blue. [A]

These are Hugh's Huge [B]

These are Simpson's Special [C]

And these are Alderman [D]

All sown on 11 March

All emerged on 21 March apart from alderman which appeared 2 days later

All planted out on 7th March

These were taken on 29th May. 

Flowers developed on these dates:

A 21 May

B 28 May

C 2 June

D 28 May

First pods so far

A 2 June

B 3 June