Showing posts with label vegetables to grow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetables to grow. Show all posts

Monday 9 September 2019

Brexit Vegetable Growing Survival Kit £24.99 each including P&P

- Brexit Vegetable Growing Survival Kit £24.99 each including P&P
Carrot Short
– Easy to grow even in heavy soil.
Stagger sowing.
Eat fresh, freeze, juice. High in fibre and Vit K, Potassium and antioxidants.
Sow Mar – Jul 1cm depth Harvest till Sep

Lambs Lettuce (Corn Salad)
– Easy to grow, resists the cold. Nutritional. Good source of beta carotine and Vit A.
Sow Feb-May and Jul to Sep 1cm depth
Harvest May-Aug and Sep to Dec

Spinach
– 4 harvests possible per year. Full of Iron, minerals, Vit C and K.
Sow Feb-May and Aug to Oct 2cm depth
Harvest May-Jul and Sep to Dec

Broad Beans
– 2 Harvests per year. Dry or eat fresh. no saturated fat or cholesterol and contain a high concentration of thiamin, vitamin K, vitamin B-6, potassium, copper, selenium, zinc and magnesium.
Sow Feb-May and Sep to Nov 2cm depth
Harvest in Summer and Spring respectively

Cut-and-come-again Lettuce
– sow every 3 weeks for continuous harvest till first frosts. Calcium, potassium, Vit C and folate.
Sow Mar – Sep 1cm depth
Harvest May till Nov

Broccoletti – fast growing brocoletti, healthy and easy to grow. Vit K and C, folic acid and fibre.
Sow May-Aug 1cm depth
Harvest late Summer and Autumn

Kale – Completely winter hardy. Steam, boil, use in stews or soups.
Sow May to Jul 1cm depth
Harvest through the winter

Pea Dwarf – Two harvests, nutritional, can be dried or frozen. As a source of vitamin K, manganese, thiamin,copper, vitamin C, phosphorous, and folate, green peas offer a remarkable nutrition profile.
Sow Feb-Apr and Sep-Nov 2cm depth
Harvest late Summer and Spring respectively

Borlotto bean Dwarf – Shell and either dry or freeze. Use in stews, soups, casseroles. Very high potassium content.
Sow Mar-Jun 2cm depth
Harvest late Summer

French bean – Easy to grow. Beans mature at same time at same length so ideal for freezing. vitamins C and A, and minerals including iron, calcium and magnesium.
Sow Mar-Jun 2cm depth
Harvest late Summer

Bush Tomato – Source of vitamins and antioxidents. Can be dried or frozen or made in to sauces.
Sow Spring 1cm depth
Harvest Summer

Pumpkin
– Can be stored through winter. Small culinary variety. The edible flowers are delicious in omelettes once the crown has been removed. Contains Vit A and antioxidants.
Sow Mar-Jun
Harvest Summer and Autumn

Instructions:

It is very easy to over complicate growing veg.
Plant them at the proper time and depth one fist apart in dirt and water them when dry.
You can grow them in garden soil or buy grow bags from your garden centre which are not expensive.
Try and plant them all in at least 60% sun, the tomato 75%.

SPRING - SOW Carrot, Lambs Lettuce, Lettuce, French bean, Tomato, Spinach, Pumpkin, Pea, Broad Bean, Borlotto bean.
Summer -SOW Carrot, Lettuce, Kale, French bean, Broccoli, Borlotto bean.
Autumn/Winter - SOW Lambs Lettuce, Spinach, Pea, Broad Bean.

Harvest all year.
In a protected space like a greenhouse or balcony you might be able to extend seasons.
Performance subject to conditions.

Sunday 11 January 2015

Top vegetables to grow in 2015.

Top vegetables to grow in 2015 - Telegraph
Early in January and February is a good time to flip through all the new seed catalogues and find some exciting new vegetables to grow.
Many of us love spinach, but if it's been conventionally grown it's one of the plants which contains the highest pesticide residue, even after a good wash (visit ewg.org). This is therefore a good crop to grow yourself, yet spinach can be tricky to germinate. So instead, choose komatsuna (thompson-morgan.com) ideal for sowing in a greenhouse, or a sheltered spot under a plastic tunnel or cloche. It's easier to grow than baby-leaf spinach, but similar in flavour.
The plants are hardy enough to grow right through winter – particularly under glass – but also fine to grow and slow to bolt in spring and summer.
Salsola (realseeds.co.uk), is great raw in salads. It reminds me of samphire and is popular with chefs, who wilt it down by quick-frying in olive oil or butter. This is delicious served with almost any fish and is another cut-and-come-again annual (or, strictly speaking, a tender perennial). Harvest it with scissors, cutting off the top shoots. To aid germination, put the seed in the freezer for a few days before sowing.
Suttons.co.uk also have true samphire – the delicious stuff usually harvested from the mudflats of East Anglia, Kent and the Brittany coast. There's no reason we can't all grow it as a cut-and-come-again. I imagine it will need regular watering, but I'm certainly going to try it.
For later in the summer, I've also fallen for a blue-black tomato 'Indigo Rose' (suttons.co.uk; denieuwetuin.be). Two gardener-grower friends of mine grew this last year and recommend it – sweet, tangy and thin-skinned. The skin contains the same pigment as blueberries and blood oranges (anthocyanin), one of the most powerful antioxidants yet discovered.
Sweetcorn 'Red Strawberry' makes excellent popcorn
Look out also for the almost everlasting sweetcorn 'Red Strawberry' (thompson-morgan.com; denieuwetuin.be), invaluable for looking good in displays and wreaths. I'm hoping to grow a glade of this next summer. And I'm planning to use it as my vertical climbing frame for a new bean discovery 'Helda' (organiccatalogue.com; kingsseedsdirect.com; sarahraven.com), again recommended by friends. It has meltingly tender flesh and no hint of that terrible stringiness which puts us all off grown-too-large runners.
Then, for the end of the year but for sowing this spring, I'm trying out flower sprouts, a cross between a Brussels sprout and kale (dobies.co.uk). I've only eaten these in London restaurants, but this year we should all grow our own. They taste like a mild, sweeter sprout and are very good for you. Like all brassicas, they contain vitamins and antioxidants to boost our immune systems.
My final must-sow is kale from Peter Bauwens's unusual list (denieuwetuin.be). We should all eat more of this. It's full of compounds which turn on the detoxifying system in our own cells and so help protect against various cancers. If you can find kales which look good in the garden as well as being good to eat, and give us a new boost of life, you're on to a winner.