Winter Vegetable Beauties

Curly Kale thriving in a quite a few plots

June and Queens Birthday weekend and the communal spaces and individual plots looked splendid with winter crops ready to harvest.  These photos were all taken on Monday 2nd of  June and show just how productive the gardens are at the start of winter.

John has a splendid crop of fennel bulbs. These
were planted in January and ready for harvest now.

A fine example of Savoy Cabbage

The cabbages in the communal patch were planted out as seedlings in early March and in just 3 months are ready to harvest.

Kohlrabi - a really strange looking vegetable 

At our shared lunch today at the gardens we enjoyed a pickled vegetable salad made with fine strips of Kohlrabi and carrot.  It has been described by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as a vegetable with a "radishy, water chestnutty crunch".

Cavolo nero - Italian Black Cabbage

They say the greener the vegetable the better it is for you - in that case Cavolo Nero's long wrinkled leaves are a healthy choice in this plot.  It grows like this in it's first year and then if left next year will grow quite tree like.

Most decorative standing about one metre high Cavolo Nero plant with a bit of age.

A kale you would normally find in a flower garden because of it's stunning colour patterning.

The cauliflowers growing in the communal area were also planted out as seedlings in March.

This year we grew orange and purple cauliflowers.

The red cabbages planted at the same time are taking a little longer to mature but are looking a picture all the same.