2008 was the best year yet with an even wider crop selection, boosted by my extra time spent 'supervising' growth from a deckchair, following redundancy. broad beans (10 years supply still in freezer), red cabbage, radish, swedes and sweetcorn all vied for the crop of the year, with good results with Little Gem lettuce too, once growth outstripped slug consumption rates.
In addition, we grew lots of other things, including several new ones such as celeriac, salsify, garlic, spinach, spinach beet, broccoli and turnips. In the mini plastic greenhouse we also tried courgettes and cucumbers which both produced modest but sufficient crops.
On the fruit side, blueberries did very well, 3 new redcurrant bushes cropped well and my first attempt at forced rhubarb produced delightfully tender stalks that ended up as jam with the previous year's frozen blackcurrants.
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