Roots, Shoots, Fruits and Leaves!

[Jay-ell]

erm, peas?

[veggiechicken]

Now leesten, I vill say this only vonce..................

Peas and beans are FRUIT and are sown in Week 3 - whether you eat the leaves, the stems, the pods, the peas/beans...........or even the roots.

There can be no dispute,
Peas and beans are grown as Fruit.

[Jay-ell]

...........or even the roots.

Too cold for runner beans

[veggiechicken]

I'm surprised nobody has suggested kale for this week! Just sorting out some seeds............back soon

[Jay-ell]

Mmmm, kale broccoli's

[Penellype]

Alfalfa sprouts

[Jay-ell]

What are Brussel Sprouts - leaf, flower,fruit?

[bramble]

I would class it under leaves Jay-ell.

[veggiechicken]

Alfalfa sprouts

Week 2 - shoots/stems and stalks (and anything with a funny name)

What are Brussel Sprouts - leaf, flower,fruit?

I would class it under leaves Jay-ell.

Well done Bramble. Go to the top of the class

Jay-ell - you will write out 100 times " Brussel Sprouts are leaves". Off you go.........

[bramble]

Thank you V.C. High praise indeed coming from the expert. ��

[veggiechicken]

[veggiechicken]

Leaves sown in Week 4

Spinach - Giant Winter; Bordeaux; Emilia
Cabbage - Flower of Spring: Wheeler's Imperial; Precoce de Louviers
Kale - White Russian; Red Ursa Russian; Nero di Toscana, Dwarf Blue Curly
Texel/Abyssinian Cabbage
Lettuce - Winter Gem.

All sown in modules, in the kitchen, Monday evening. I didn't have any compost to cover the seeds so I left them on the surface of the compost overnight. A couple of the cabbage seeds had germinated by Tuesday! Amazing speed

Progress report!
Week 1 Roots All germinated in buckets in the GH

Week 2 Shoots All onions except the White Welsh onions (old seeds) are through.
Oriental veg just starting to show.
No sign of rhubarb yet.

Week 3 - Fruits
No Peas or beans yet.

I really like this crazy system. Don't think I would have sown any of these seeds without it. Just have to keep them growing now

[Jay-ell]

Looking good VC. Hope you've sorted out the pots and greenhouses to overwinter everything.

[veggiechicken]

Round 2 - Roots

Its Roots week and I'm starting the RSF&L Round again.

This week I'll be thinning out seedlings from Round 1 and sowing a bucket of carrots, beetroot and some radish.

[Jay-ell]

That's a new twist

So is it that you can only thin roots in a roots week?