If I was only allowed to grow five types of veg I would have to have tomatoes, sweetcorn, courgettes, sprouts and globe artichokes - all of these seem to be infinately better freshly picked from the garden and eaten within 5 minutes (especially the sweetcorn). Fortunately I can grow more, this is what I have grown so far:
Sunday 3rd March
Sungold F1 tomato - cherry tomatoes that taste fabulous and seem to keep cropping heavily forever - I've been picking them in Christmas week some years. Last year I didn't grow these and regretted it daily throughout the summer while the the tomatoes I was growing yielded little and poor tasting fruit.Spinach beet
Bright lights chard - mainly for the variety of stalk colours, but if left to go to seed, the whole plant can be uprooted and chickens love to strip the stalks bare
Peppers (chilli and sweet) - Sweet banana, Corno di torro rosso, Purple beauty, Freso, Red cherry and Jalapeno - these are all new varieties to me
Calibra peas - a petit pois variety I've not tried before
Saturday 9th March
Red ball and Bedford brussels sprouts - one red and one green variety that I've not tried before but promise a long cropping season from August to March between them[Sweet peas: Lilac ripple, Erewhon, Old times - all grown for the fact they are meant to have a really heavy strong frangrance]
Yellow hop roots from the old house put into compost as they have started putting out shoots now
Sungold F1 tomatoes - 2 weeks after planting
Sunday 17th March
Mesclun - to go into a bed in the greenhouse for early spring saladsNasturtiums: Alaska mixed, Peach melba, Golden jewel, Tall mixed, Mahogany gleam, Tom thumb mixed
Artichoke - Violetto di Romagna - I normally grow Green globe, this is a smaller variety
San marzano tomato (very old seed so will probably not work)
Calibra peas ( yes more!)
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