Veg plans for 2021

What's the best option for storing potatoes?

Have a choice of metal barrel, plastic barrel, old freezer (not working) or wooden box. All have rodent proof lids. usually don't have any to store but got a massive return from "Sevilla" variety that I wasn't expecting so I have 2 wheelbarrows full!!!

Planted my garlic last year on 30 Oct. Several varieties from several sources. All did very well and I have more than enough bulbs for next year's sowing. Garlic so far has been pretty easy, I think the slugs don't like the leaves though I occasionally find them crawling on them. I harvested the garlic in mid-July (more or less, some was a bit later).

Still have butternut squash that refuses to turn orange. Lots of it. I'm not happy with Seedaholics seeds; I harvested another squash that I still don't know what it was, kind of looked like a pumpkin wannabe. Went in early, grew slowly, eventually yielded two fruit that stopped growing a month ago. Tasted o.k., but I yanked the plant.

Seeds came out of a pack of butternut seeds. That's my biggest complaint with them, I get things from their seed packs that aren't what was on the label, that couldn't have come from elsewhere. Plus seed viability is very low even for things like chard.

My winterkeeffe peas have started to grow strongly out of the pile I made from all the old plants from this years crop after I thought I had saved the seed from the old pods I had not used. Not sure if they will survive overwinter but will try put in some support for them over the weekend to see if they might have a chance to make it through to spring. Garlic also due to be planted soon and hoping the chard and red Russian Kale that are cropping well keep going through to 2022. Beetroot probably wont get to 2022 as it seems there is a local badger likes the taste of them, It dug up my main crop this year and the late sown ones are just getting to the right size for it to pick now. Just found earlier it had eaten one and picked about five others that were too small for it to bother with and it just left there on the ground after pulling them up. Leeks also still look like spring onions so they will be waiting for 2022 cropping as well.

What's seed availability looking like? Last year this time I think we started getting worried about what was out there. It seems that there were a fair range of seeds available but locally a few gardeners have been complaining that the quality was low. I'd agree with that, had a lot of bad luck with seeds I brought in.

(maybe we need veg plans 2022?)

I lifted my last row this week, about half had damage of one sort or another - the undamaged ones were very tasty!

Seed potatoes available to order (2022 delivery) from Quickcrop and Fruithill