Peter Norris

  1. Savoy-cabbage competition

    Savoy-cabbage competition

    In recent years, I have tried 8 different varieties of “winter-hardy” savoy cabbage, to find out which varieties meet the challenges best planted with a distance of 50 × 50 as a second crop sometime in June. The differences...

  2. Sowing of this year's onions

    Sowing of this year's onions

    This year, for fun, I will follow Maria Thun's sowing calendar - especially when it comes to crops such as spinach, carrots and parsley, where the germination in the open air is sometimes depressingly poor. When it comes to the other...

  3. Too early sprouted carrots

    Too early sprouted carrots

    Much against my will, it turns out today that the carrots that were sown in a manure pile in November, have now sprouted as a result of the warm December weather. And that was not the intention. They were sown when the soil temperature...

  4. Early potatoes are laid

    Early potatoes are laid

    In addition to harvesting the last savoy, the earliest potatoes of the Solist variety have finally been laid today. A little later than usual (only now is there a prospect that the soil maintains an average temperature of at least 8 °), but...

  5. Beetroot as a side benefit

    Beetroot as a side benefit

    Beets are preferably grown as a kind of "side benefit" - which means that no separate cultivation space is set aside for them, but that they are grown put in between other crops, where there is not much else that can thrive. It has been...

  6. LONG, STRAIGHT, SMOOTH Parsley roots

    LONG, STRAIGHT, SMOOTH Parsley roots

    This year I have decided that I WANT to be able to harvest long, straight, smooth supermarket delicious parsley roots - instead of the crippled squid-like things I usually get out of it. However, it requires quite a lot of thought and care?...