Greens 2016

Early Golden Acre Cabbage  (heirloom) 
Date sown:   April 7
Transplanted:   Two small transplants – May 18 (rock bed beside currant bush)
Observations:  Started in a milk jug greenhouse outside
May 9 – These germinated and grew well, but small black bugs nibbled at the leaves (pin-holes) and damaged many of the seedlings.


Jersey Wakefield Cabbage (heirloom) 
Date sown:   April 7
Transplanted:   May 18 (rock bed beside currant bush)
Observations:  Started in a milk jug greenhouse outside
May 9 – These germinated and grew well, but small black bugs nibbled at the leaves (pin-holes) and damaged many of the seedlings.
May 18 – Of the four types of cabbage seed I started, this variety did the best.  Ended up with 7 or 8 transplants.


Red Mammoth Cabbage  (heirloom)
Date sown:   April 8
Transplanted:  Just one transplant - May 18 (rock bed beside currant bush)
Observations:  Two germinated, and one of those was eaten by bugs!
September 29 - didn't get to harvest any of these.  They are just beginning to form heads now, and we are due to have our first snowfall (10cm this weekend!)

  
Copenhagen Cabbage
Date direct sown:  April 21
Observations:  Started in a milk jug greenhouse outside.

CABBAGE – also planted 6 green (“Roll” cabbage - a drumhead variety) and 6 red transplants we bought at the greenhouse in the north garden on May 23^rd.

Broccoli  (Calabrese)
Date planted:   April 11
Observations:   Started seeds in milk jug greenhouse outside.

BROCCOLI and CAULIFLOWER  - May 23^rd - planted 18 broccoli and 6 cauliflower transplants we bought at the greenhouse in the north garden. Would grow again?  I love broccoli and cauliflower, but they take up a great deal of room
 in the garden and produce little food for the effort.  I would like to grow Romanesco broccoli again (grew it in 2015) if I can find transplants next Spring or successfully start it from seed.  The plants were large, but they produced large heads - larger than any of the regular broccoli or cauliflower we have grown.
 

Lacinato Kale
Date sown:   March 16
Germinated: March 20
Observations: Started kale seeds in a milk jug “greenhouse” in the plant room this year as an experiment.  They must love the warmth – they germinated in 4 days!
Would grow again?  Yes - easiest kale to harvest.  Keeps producing from June right through until the first killer frost.

Fordhook Swiss Chard and Bright Lights Swiss Chard
Date sown:   March 25
Observations: Sown in milk jug greenhouses.
Would grow again?  Yes, always reliable, easy to grow.

Purplus, Flashy Butter Oak, and Black Seeded Simpson lettuce
Date direct sown:    May 27 in a strip between the broccoli (north garden).
Would grow again?  Yes, all grew abundantly.  The Purplus and Flashy Butter Oak were beautiful in the garden.