The vegetable plot is coming along quite well now we've got past the caterpillar invasion of summer. Unfortunately, a lot of the soil (which we painstakingly collected from the area around us as our soil is very poor) got washed away in the floods. It used to come up to the top of the raised bed!
The Chinese white radish are particularly good - that's the one sticking up above the ground. One is ready for harvesting, so we're going to try it in a Western stew (using up Christmas ham leftovers, it'll take the place of turnip). I'm hoping the others will be ready for Chinese New Year so we can try to make turnip cake. The English cabbages are coming along as are the chard and beetroot. Don't know what to do with the curly lettuce - none of the other types of lettuce sprouted and they're too bitter to eat on their own. We think the ginger (at the far far left) is about ready to dig up too.
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