Last Year

My first post to this blog is a summary of what vegetables I grew in my garden last year and how sucessfull I was with them. I was sure I kept the seed packets from last year but I can't find them now so variety names are a little thin on the ground.

• Leeks - These were a great success and the last few are still in the ground.
  
• Potatoes - These were ok. I didn't plant that many, infact I seem to recall that I only transplanted plants that popped up in the flower border that had previously had potatoes in them.
  
• Onions "Turbo" - Not great. I suspect because they went in the ground too late and I think they might have suffered from lack of water and possibly feeding.
  
• Salad Onions "Ishikura" - These did better than the 'big' onions. I staggered sowing so as not to be overwhelmed.
  
• Runner Beans "Red Rum" - These did well this year because I sowed beans into pots inside before planting them outside.
  
• Lettuces - Tried these for the first time from a request by Michelle who loves her lettuce. I didn't thin out well enough. One thing I did notice is that I planted the lettuces along side a row of rocket plants and while the rocket leaves got a great deal of attention from pests the lettuces did not.
  
• Carrots - They did ok early on but I think I may have been a bit aggressive on thinning out because I only ended up with few at the end.