Thanks to a nasty case of allium leaf miner I've lost all my 2016/17 leeks and have decided to not put any in this year either to try and control the population. This gives me an entire bed (6mX1.5m) free from about May or June which won't be needed until May next year. It is in the middle of the veg garden, currently under brassicas and was manured for the previous bean and peas.
So what would you do?
Choices I've come up with so far are:-
More tomatoes - we normally grow enough to keep us in fresh, dried and bottled all year but I do seem to have bought five additional seed varieties this year
Put it under phacelia for the year to keep the bees happy.
Grow annual flowers for pollinators/cutting (I am rubbish at pretty things).
Grow more cabbages/kale etc to make up for the lack of leeks (we have had to BUY veggies this winter )
Grow more summer veg, although we normally have more than enough.
Something else, something unusual?
(Climate very hot/dry/cold/stormy/wet/frosty/snowy - sometimes all in the same month )
Thanks lovelies.
So what would you do?
Choices I've come up with so far are:-
More tomatoes - we normally grow enough to keep us in fresh, dried and bottled all year but I do seem to have bought five additional seed varieties this year
Put it under phacelia for the year to keep the bees happy.
Grow annual flowers for pollinators/cutting (I am rubbish at pretty things).
Grow more cabbages/kale etc to make up for the lack of leeks (we have had to BUY veggies this winter )
Grow more summer veg, although we normally have more than enough.
Something else, something unusual?
(Climate very hot/dry/cold/stormy/wet/frosty/snowy - sometimes all in the same month )
Thanks lovelies.
Comment