Coriander & Spuds
The West of Scotland is the sunniest, warmest part of the UK, this weather. It's a puzzle to me why on a fine spring evening like this, the allotments are almost deserted. But they were tonight. Maybe it's just not a regular evening kind of thing for some people? Anyways, I did a bit more digging over in the West bed, gradually heading south. I'm planting brassica>companion> brassica et seq. So far that's rows of neeps, oregano, cauliflower, and tonight a row of coriander, from the Real Seed people , said to be slow to bolt, and to give leaves rather than seed. A few years ago I got a kilo of coriander seed from a Chinese supermarket, and sowed the lot. It germinated fine, but shot away, set masses of seed, and fell over. The chickens got the benefit of most of that. I was going to plant a row of komatsuna, but realised I wasn't 100% sure if it WAS a brassica, and it didn't say on the packet. ( It is ; I'll plant it tomorrow). A pair of greenfinc...