Week 27 - Bed 7 Planting

We finally dug and prepared this bed as a deep lazy bed with extra sod from the paths chopped up under the soil. This bed is slightly smaller than the others because of some large slate slabs at one end. In the prepared seedbed, we planted two winter storage roots from the brassica family:

• China Rose Radish (20 stations, 2 seeds each) - long rose pink roots with pure white flesh which can be harvested in autumn and stored if required
• Magres Swede (24 stations, 3 seeds each) - a purple top variety of this hardy winter root vegetable

The Swede is usually called a turnip or a swede turnip in Ireland and it is known as a rutabaga in North America.