Sprouting Varieties

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Great Purple Sprouting Broccoli to try

Cardinal Broccoli

Deep purple spears with excellent flavour and early cropping.

Purple Sprouting Early Broccoli

The most popular of the sprouting varieties, very hardy and produces an abundance of dark purple spears, in March, which turn green on cooking.

Red Arrow Broccoli

Excellent uniformity and quality for cutting March and April.

Rudolph Broccoli

An extra early purple sprouting type producing large spears from late January.

Summer Purple Broccoli

Annual Purple Sprouting Broccoli. Plants will crop four to five months after sowing, harvesting spears over many weeks. Heavy yielding with a sweet flavour. Should be planted out within 4 weeks of sowing. Good in stir fry.

White Sprouting Early Broccoli

Apart from the different spear colour the leaves are less frilly and blue-green. Creamy white spears which are slightly milder in flavour than the purple and lighter green when cooked. Late February/ March harvest onwards.

White Star Broccoli

A re-selected late white type with high quality spears for cropping in March/April period.

Category: Recipes

Classic Rhubarb Crumble

Classic Rhubarb Crumble
Growing up this was my favourite dessert & seeing as only my dad and I liked it I always had a massive portion!

Fagiolini in Umido

This is a great dish to use some of the abundant Green Beans that should be available in the summer months Fagiolini in Umido is an Italian dside dish simply means Green Beans cooked in Tomato.

Category: The Growing Season

Harvest should be bountiful and the allotment is in full swing

August is the month of plenty, virtually everything you planted and sown will be giving you a crop, daily trips to the plot are recommended this month, harvesting, watering, and weeding all needing doing this month!

Jobs to do in July

Harvest should be bountiful and the allotment is in full swing

Now is the height of summer, the days endlessly long, temperatures usually at their peek and you should be reaping the rewards of your hard work in the preceding months. Watering in this month is crucial to stem off premature bolting, tomato blossom end rot and splitting skins.

Jobs to do in June

Summer should be here!

Usually the risk of frost has passed by now, and with longer days there comes more sunshine and time to be in your allotment. If the weather is dry, then water your seed drills well before sowing any seeds – this way the young plants will develop a good root system.

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