Sunday is Brassica day!

brassicas ready to plant out, originally uploaded by pinkpie.

The word brassica makes my husband snigger, but this is a picture of my lovely brassica's ready to plant out this Sunday. I've got chevalier calabrese, purple sprouting broccoli, brussels sprouts, and several different types of cauliflowers.

Last year I had amazing luck with the chevalier calabrese, it sprouted huge lovely heads, then after harvesting those it pumped out side shoots like crazy.

The purple sprouting broccoli was good too, stretching to 4 harvests of tender heads.

I only got two cauliflowers last year, but they were both good. I planted them too close together, so they struggled for room. In fact, all the brassica's were crowded, so this year I am going to give them all more space.

I am emminently more organised in terms of what goes where too. I have grouped the last harvesting ones together, so that as the early harvests are finished I will have a large continuous space for green manuring over winter. I was too late last year, and couldn't get hold of the seed when I needed it either. This year I've got it all ready.