Late July. Calabrese heads ready for cutting, and will continue to produce usable shoots until late November. Net tunnels are essential to keep out pigeons and pheasants.
Beetroot on left and parsnip on right getting well established despite the long drought during the 2006 Summer.
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Salad and cut flower bed, with purple sprouting broccoli already big under the net tunnel.
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First pickings from the squash bed: mini pumpkins, acorn, 'de horno', and butternut varieties.
August 2005. Produce being collated for Sheffield Farmers' Market.
Inspecting garlic crop. The thick stems suggest a large bulb beneath the soil - which turned out to be the case!
Although spring cabbage is hardy, we grow a few in the polytunnel for extra early and tender heads.
Winter polytunnel crop namenia. Cut small for salads, or grown on as a stir fry ingredient.It is possible to have a polytunnel chock full of greens all winter if they are started before the days get too short and cold.
Set up for the Farmers' Market, when it used to be held on The Moor
Sheffield Farmers' Market at Barkers Pool, in front of the City Hall. A better location, and a sell-out every time so far.
We are supplying selections of our produce to discerning chefs who value fresh, local, organic ingredients. This is Jaf outside his restaurant in Hutcliffe Wood Road, who has been applying his skills to developing menus that follow the seasonal availability of local produce.
