The winter radish that we sowed as a cover crop is growing very quickly, and was in need of thinning.
We do not expect to get large crop out of this crowded bed, but we will clear out most of the seedlings from a few areas to get some larger roots. We are going to try steaming the thinned greens for dinner.
The Long Black Radishes have sprouted, some areas are a bit thick and may need some thinning, while other areas are a bit too sparse. This is one of the issues with broadcasting seeds over a bed - especially late in the evening when there is little light to see what you are doing!
We pulled up the remaining radishes, cleared the rest of the bed of a few weeds, prepared a seedbed and sowed:
The radishes have grown considerably in the last 4 weeks, and we have started harvesting a few, but there is no sign of any swede.
Over the past month of rain, the vegetation surrounding this bed, and much of the rest of the garden has grown significantly, but the contents of the bed have not. The radishes have come up, though perhaps not as big as expected, and here is only one small swede seedling at the far end of the bed.
Radish seedlings.
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:
