hey friend
sure the grass is reaching for the light through my mulch more more more needed. you got the right idea to grow to store.
a friend of mine pulled up carrots the other day belief it of not after they been hidden for weeks under the snow in the freeze and they were just delicious.i dont grow carrots too well YET they fork into octopus. the peas hardly ever see a pan or hot water, ilike to send the children out to graze.
i made loads of jam last year, but i used dark sugar and no one in my house likes it too much which is a pain in the jar!
how come brasicca a pain being 5km away, cause of slugs and catapillars?have to admit the greens grow real well here but a lot of them were returned to the earth uneaten.which i think is fine. green mulch is good.i said it b4 somewhere but in my local veg shop you can buy a cuisine box of seeds mustard etc(lots o seeds for little money) and they grow like stink and ijust mulch it there and then in suite really simple,green manure.

anyway best of luck
p.s
our neighbour has spuds in the ground in his polyT couple o weeks since,great to get an early start
slan(if youever up this way (near athlone 20min by commonly called car) do call in!