Week 16 - Bed 10 Planting

We finished double-digging this bed, worked it down to a fine seedbed and sowed a polycrop (everything mixed in together) containing the following mix of seeds:

• Long Black Scorzonera - a heavy yielding, long root with white flesh and black skin
• Nantes II Carrot - an early, small cored, medium length, blunt variety
• Halblange Hamburg Parsley - a variety of parsley grown primarily for its thick, pointed half long parsnip-like roots
• White Gem Parsnip - wedge shaped root variety with smooth white skin
• Tetra Dill - a herb with feathery foliage and aniseed flavour
• Marvel of Four Seasons Lettuce - red and green butterhead heirloom variety
  
• Aruba Lettuce - a very red, large headed looseleaf variety
• All Year Round Lettuce - a pale green compact butterhead variety
  
• Salad Bowl Lettuce - cut and come again looseleaf lettuce, with long green leaves
  
• Roger Lettuce - red batavia variety
  
• Little Gem Lettuce - dwarf cos variety
  
• Till Lettuce - dense looseleaf variety with arrow shaped leaves

These seeds were raked in and pressed into the soil and covered with a thin layer of peat compost. The following onion varieties were then randomly transplanted into the seedbed from pots which were originally sown from seed in week 11:

• Baun Onion - a large, white, strong bulb excellent keeping variety
• James Long Keeping Onion - an old english variety, with medium sized reddish brown bulb