Tomatoes.

I bought plants and ready to plant!

'Black Russian' - a large, dark skinned variety
‘Golden Crown’ - An early-maturing cherry tomato producing sweet, yellow fruit.
‘F1 Peardrops’ - Peardrops is a yellow fruited trailing variety with highly attractive pear shaped fruit and a delicious flavour. Peardrops is a traditional green shouldered variety that has a good flavour balance of sweetness and acidity. Plants are useful for planting in mixed baskets and containers or even hanging baskets.
F1 Peardrops - Tomato Trailing | Vegetalis:

How to grow cucamelons.

How to grow cucamelons:
I bought plants and ready to plant!
CUCAMELONS: GRAPE-SIZED CUKES

Doll’s house-sized ‘watermelons’ that taste of pure cucumber with a tinge of lime. These little guys are officially the cutest food known to man & oh-so-easy to grow even for real beginners. Let me show you how to get started…

HOW TO GROW CUCAMELONS:
Cucamelons can be grown in pretty much the exact same way as regular cucumbers, only they are far easier.
They don’t need the cover of a greenhouse, fancy pruning or training techniques and suffer from very few pests.
Sow the seed from April to May indoors and plant out when all risk of frost is over.
Give them a support the scramble over, keep well watered and that’s pretty much all you will need to do!
Harvest them when they are the size of a grape, but still nice and firm.
They make pretty, high-yielding vines that can be planted really close together to get the most out of a small space – as little as 15cm between plants around a trellis.
HOW TO EAT CUCAMELONS:
The fruit can be eaten straight off the plant, or tossed with olives, slivers of pepper and a dousing of olive oil. Perfect for a quirky snack with drinks – or even popped like an olive in a cheeky martini.

PICKLED CUCAMELONS WITH MINT & DILL (cm WEB)
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Melothria heterophylla (Lour.) Cogn.
The roots are edible!
Botanical name: Melothria heterophylla (Lour.) Cogn.
Synonmous name:Zehneria umbellata Thw.
Family name:Cucurbitaceae
Genus:
A large genus of annual or perennial climbers or herbs occurring in the tropics of the world. Leaves polymorphous. Flowers are small and yellow. Some species are medicinal and in some species the fruit is edible.

Species:
A herbaceous plant with tuberous root occurring throughout India.
The plant bears polymorphous leaves and small yellow flowers coloured unisexual flowers.
Fruit is brown coloured with many sub-spherical, smooth seeds.
The roots, leaves and fruits are edible.
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Pumpkins.

Pumpkins - James Wong | Official Site:
I bought the plant and is ready to put it outside!

Jack-o'-lantern pumpkins are a classic fall crop, providing a great opportunity for growers to extend their selling season.
How to Make Homemade Pumpkin Pie - from an Ordinary Jack 'O Lantern Pumpkin.

Those big pumpkins may not be as sweet as the smaller “sugar pumpkins” or “pie pumpkins”, but you can still use them for everything from roasted veggies to oatmeal, to soups, loaves and pies.
The typical "jack-o-lantern" or carving pumpkins tend to have little flesh for the size and are very stringy and flavorless.
Pumpkins are an excellent source of fiber, vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene, an important antioxidant), vitamin C and potassium.

Do nothing but wait, as squash only produce their very best flavour after a few weeks of storage.
The exact length of storage does vary noticeably between varieties.
Between one month for 'Crown Prince' to up to three months for 'Butternut' types.
The only important thing you need to remember is that they be kept cool and dry, in a well ventilated place.
A garage or a shed would be perfect.
And in just a few weeks you won't believe the difference.

Which are the best pumpkins? | Sarah Raven:

I'd probably grow pumpkins for their looks alone, but the right ones can make fantastic eating. I have some tried-and-tested favourites: 'Red Kuri' is a useful size, with waxy texture and excellent taste. It can climb (Teepee Trellis), which is handy in a smaller garden and is a good producer.
Another winner is 'Crown Prince', a hugely long storer with good texture and taste, while 'Munchkin' is pretty, small, abundant, with flesh reminiscent of sweet chestnut.

-‘Crown of Thorns'
Looks and ornamental longevity 7/10
Eating 2/10

Blueberries. By James Wong.

One trial found that lightly cooking blueberries (as happens when you bake a pie) can double their absorbable antioxidant content. Talk about having your pie and eating it.

The homegrown variety 'Rubel', for example, delivers three times the antioxidant payload of supermarket staples like 'Bluecrop'.

Tomatoes. By James Wong.

Tomatoes - James Wong | Official Site:
"Unbelievably, spraying a dilute solution of aspirin onto your tomato plants (we are talking half a soluble tablet per litre of water) is capable of causing their sugar content to soar one and a half times and boost their Vitamin C content 50%.

This treatment can even make your plants more resistant to cold, drought and (not that we'll ever need it in the UK) heat stress too. According to one trial this can even result in a 47% less incidence of late blight, the scourge of tomato growers,
This works as aspirin is a close chemical copy of the plant stress hormone, salicylic acid, which turns on the genes that regulate their defence systems.

The more stress a plant 'thinks' it is under, the more sugars are redirected to the developing fruit in a bid to make them irresistable to passing animals. Plants do this to ensure their seeds have the maximum chance of being dispersed to save the next generation, but it conveniently makes for tastier salad too."
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- Невероятно, опрыскивание раствором аспирина растений томата - помидора (растворить половину таблетки на литр воды) способно повысить содержание сахара в них в полтора раза и повысить содержание витамина С на 50%!

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Potatoes.

A Simple Way to Get High Yields of Potatoes:

"A Simple Way to Get High Yields of Potatoes"

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- Strawberry 'Buddy'
- Strawberry 'Gariguette'
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How to grow Strawberry Spinach.

How to grow Strawberry Spinach - Know your Vegetables:
This easy to grow plant produces edibles leaves and fruit - Annual!

An old-fashioned plant that dates to 1600 in Europe.
This curious plant produces greens that are picked and cooked like spinach, but it also produces attractive, red berries that are bland in flavor.
These add a nice touch to fruit salads.
Easy-to-grow plants are similar to “Lamb’s Quarters”, a wild relative.
Found in a monastery garden.
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Homemade Fertilizers.

Lower Lovetts Farm :: Richards Homemade Fertilizers: "Richards Homemade Fertilizers"
Comfrey Liquid (1:50)
I pick the comfrey just before it flowers and cram it into a water butt.
This normally takes 6 to 8 weeks depending on how warm it is. Tip: If you put the tub in the sun it works quicker. You can start using it at this stage.
When you get a green sludge (even more vile smelling a month or so later) I bottle it in 75cl bottles, old screw cap wine bottles. One 75cl bottle will do four watering cans of 2 gallons per can - i..e. one litre to every 10.5 gallons of water (50 litres) or 1:50.
Stinging Nettles Liquid
Wood Ash Liquid
Fill the bucket nearly full with water and stir for three weeks.
With tomatoes I use it once or twice a week, but by August when the tomatoes are at their best I use it every day for a short period.
If you want to keep the plants after a prolonged period of watering with wood ash liquid, add some Epsom salts to the pots and the green will return.
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