Last of the roots

Its been quite a while since my last post on here. Much has occured, but sadly little of it involving decent veg. This year has been terrible on the plot. The sweetcorn came to nothing, neither did the onions. The potatos were ok but not great yield. Carrots and other roots marginal. I have just pulled the last of the root veg, shown below

That said, we had some of the carrots, parsnips, and a leek with dinner today, roasted in a little olive oil, and they were very nice. The leeks seem to have done fairly, its the first time ive grown them and i didnt really do them properly. Last week i had my one and only sweet pepper as part of my fried rice, it was small but tasty. Most greenhouse veg didnt do too well due to the greenhouse move, but the courgettes did ok. As for the pumpkins and squash, they rotted.

Were on our way towards next years crops now. The onions and garlic are in and growing. The rhubarb is well manured up, and the beds are being prepared. Spring cabbages are already in and doing well. For the first time this year i have managed to get a load of manure. Thats being dug into the plots that wont have root veg next year. I think we will stick to simple veg, the sort of stuff we like, rather than anything experimental. The apple trees have been grease banded, and all the leaves bagged and stacked for leaf mould.

Of the four cauliflower plants, one grew a curd, but then rotted before i could use it. But a second one is hearting up now, im keeping a close eye on it, and we will eat that as soon as it looks big enough. The calabrese is the one thing that has done really well, we had that with dinner today as well.