Actual final end of 2020 harvest

Today I harvested the last of the crops from 2020. The beetroots were terrible (again) - from around 30 relatively healthy plants, we got two or three tangerine sized beets, and the rest were rubbish. I will wait a while befor etrying again ... they never work out. The last two savoy cabbages were more of a success. They survived the hard frost in January and tslugs at the end of 2020, and were still good today. We had them sort of flash fried and served with carraway, duck breast and boiled potatoes.

First planting of the year (and standing stones at equinox)

The equinox has been and gone and the clocks have changed to daylight savings time. These two milestones, together with the sunny waeter today were enough to get me out for the first planting of the year. In the south east bed, next to the two small rose bushes, I have put in six small dahlia tubers and the canna from last year (it over-wintered wrapped up in the shed). I hope the dahlias will make some flowers for cutting - the canna is a 50/50 chance depending on whether it survived the hard frost. In the same bed I have put in three half rows of parsnips. The soil is still pretty stoney but you never know what might work. Next weekend I will put the pumpkin (Atlantic Giant and some tasty variety whose name I have forgotten) and chilli seeds (Apache) into seed trays to germinate indoors.

Perhaps somehow inspired by the recent equinox, we visited the local standing stone site. For completeness, our own stone are here: