what to grow
We'll come round and have a chat about this. It's a bit confusing to say the least. We'll ask you about what you like to eat and how much of your own work you want to put into the garden (or get the kids to do!) because some things you can pop in the ground and pull them out two or three months later and some things are a bit more needy (but always worth it).
But mostly, you plop the seeds in some suitable ground, make sure they get light and water and leave the rest up to God. Or Mother Nature. Or evolution. We think it's amazing and awe inspiring to grow your own food and we don't mind who or what you want to thank for it.
I like to grow potatoes. Some people say that growing potatoes is a bit of a waste of space in a small plot when they take up quite a lot of room and take quite a long time to grow. They obviously don't like potatoes as much as I do!
On the other hand, I don't much like growing carrots. Don't get me wrong, I adore eating carrots. Love them. And they store well, and you can leave them in the ground for a lot of the winter. But, by gum I find them a faff.
Maincrops
- Coco Sophie Bean
- Minidor Bean
- Telephone tall pea
- Diamond Aubergine
- Striato di Napoli Courgette
- Pattison Orange Courgette
- Rainbow Quinoa
- Australian Yellowleaf lettuce
- Flame lettuce
- Tender & True Parsnip
- Giant Red carrot
- Minnesota Midget melon
Spring Salad
- Huge Romaine Lettuce "Australian Yellowleaf"
- Cherry Red Lettuce "Flame"
- Land Cress
- Mizuna oriental salad green
- Oakleaf Salad Endive "Bianca Riccia da Taglio"
- "Belleville" Sorrel
- White Pak Choi
- 60 day Rapini "San Marzano"
- Salad Rocket
Tomatoes and capsicums
- Amish Paste Tomato
- Costoluto Fiorentino Tomato
- Galina Tomato
- Gold Medal Tomato
- Supersweet 'Gardeners Delight'
- Millefleur Tomato
- Red Cluster Pear Tomato
- Sweet Chocolate sweet pepper
- Large Red Cherry chilli 'Iranian Round'
- Green 'Early Jalapeño' chilli
- Beautiful yellow chilli 'Wenks Yellow Hots'
- Long Red European heirloom chilli 'Westlandse Lange Rode'