Tree cabbage and mooli radish as cut flowers

It's not all digging and sowing for the summer, some things are looking pretty right now. These flowers are, guess what? Tree cabbage (the yellow) and mooli radish (purpleish)!

The plants have been on the ground since last autumn and now in spring they are flowering. They make perfect cut flowers, and I can eat the cabbage leaves too (and the bunnies love radish leaves). I hope I have time to save some seed from these before I move house!

Estas flores son... Un tipo de berza (lad amarillas) y unos rabanitos! Las plantas son del año pasado y estan dando flor ahora. Quedan preciosas como flor cortada, y ademas las berzas son muy ricas (y a los conejos les encantan las hojas de rabanitos). A ver si les da tiempo de dar semilla antes de la mudanza de casa!

Muscari in pot

It's not all compost and allotment digging, I also have some spring flowers...

No todo es compost y cavar en la huerta, tambien tengo flores de primavera...

Potatoes planted for 2012

My potatoes have been in the ground since 31 March. You can see in the photo how they had sprouted first - I had them in the greenhouse for a month beforehand. I put some of my own compost at the bottom of the hole.

From left to right, I planted: highland burgundy (mc), sante (mc), Charlotte (2nd), cosmos (1st), sharpe (1st).

Today I topped up the soil with more compost and more soil I dug from the other side of the allotment: the plants should be strong enough to grow through this amount of soil, and also I will have enough earth on the sides to pile on top of the potatoes when they show (creating a "ridge").