traditionally swedes would be sewn directly into the ground okay and i've done that for the for the last three years i compared sowing them directly into the soil and sewing them into modular trays yeah and do you know what shocked me the modular grown ones were a hundred times better really yeah we could sew it now around mid april and we'll have it quite early in september yeah but you may make a second sewing in june to have them ready for pulling in october november december yeah for the winter months do two sewings because we are still early we just do two rows that will give us 14 and we saw one seat per cell if by accident i put in two seats i'll nip one off when it's germinated and if there's a gap somewhere i'll prick it out into the gap so i on purpose sometimes i might put in two seats in in an odd cell right uh we've got uh our suite here this is gallery as we said disregard soil then any good friable soil plenty of moisture make it grow smoothly the spacing really determines the size of your end product 20 centimeters you'd have reasonably small but plenty of them swedes any jobs now to look after them they're they're pretty trouble-free nothing at all just hoe it's weeded that's all yeah that seems to be coming on quite well we have a few little holes there is that flea beetle it's flea beetle yeah sweets and turnips and radishes are very susceptible and it's if you if you touch it you'd see little tiny beetles just jumping off yeah not a bother at all you know i because we eat the roots so if they eat no no is there anything else we need to look out for with the usual cabbage paste cabbage white butterfly cabbage root fly it's minor even if they do come we'll feed them a little bit now yeah because we want them to grow quite big they're still quite small can you see that yeah that'll be another three months you know september october probably before they're ready to harvest yeah so we just give them a little feeds there if you sprinkle a few pellets around yeah we have some chicken manure and seaweed pellets here and we're basically just lightly sprinking them around the plant a reasonable distance out from it just work it into the soil lightly like that and the rain then will wash down and wash the nutrients in around the plant now we have a couple of swedes grown here these ones are actually we're out and out in the field these are field grown sweets but they're the same ones as we planted early earlier on so we're coming towards the middle of december now and we're just going to harvest some of these basically very easy just just pull them out so this is an absolutely perfect winter crop we've really done nothing with these over over the season once they're sewn they grow very easily very few pests and diseases and something it's now the middle of december and something that we can harvest now and really really fantastic winter vegetable