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How to Grow Spring Onions

TopVeg — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:25:10 +0000

Spring onions, also known as salad onions or scallions, are delicious when young, becoming more pungent as the stems enlarge and start to bulb. Eat them freshly pulled, uncooked, in salads. Both the white bulb and the green leaves are eaten. Sometimes they are chopped & added to a hot dish just before serving.

Spring-Onion

Successional sowings throughout the season give a constant supply.

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Sow seeds March to August, every 3 weeks for continuous crops. Sow seeds thinly 1-2cm (½ to ¾in) deep, ideally in broad drills. Allow 30cm (12in) between drills.

Soil should be fertile, dug & broken down to a fine seedbed.

No thinning is necessary.

Water well, do not allow to dry out

Weeds should be hoed out between the rows when they are small. Pull out any weeds appearing in the drills.

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Harvest: May to October, later sowings may remain through to December if weather remains mild. Harvesting can usually start 6-8 weeks after sowing

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How To Grow Tomato Card

TopVeg — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:29:20 +0000

Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create some FREE How To Grow Vegetables Cards, including this How to Grow Tomatoes card.

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If you would like a pdf of this tomato or any of the How to Grow cards, please complete the contact form asking for the grow card you would like and we will email it to you.

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When are radish ready?

TopVeg — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:55:29 +0000

When are radish ready to harvest? It really depends on:

how you like your radish
what variety you are growing

We prefer to eat the variety ‘french breakfast’ when it is small. If it grows as big as the one in the picture it becomes fibrous and bits often go hard. This variety tends to become mis-shapen as it gets too big.

large-french-breakfast-radish

Vienna , however, is a larger variety. The radish in the photo are really the size of golf balls! They are a perfect shape and colour and have no blenishes. They are delicious to eat, quite mild in flavour but crisp and crunchy.

large-vienna-radish

Radishes are at their best when grown quickly.

If you are unsure about when radishes are ready, pull one and try it – if it suits you, it is ready!

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Radish Harvest

TopVeg — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:12:34 +0000

Radish can be harvest right through the summer, if the radish seed is sown every 2 or 3 weeks.

bunch-vienna-radish

This year we have grown:

1. Vienna F1 hybrids

large, golf ball sized roots if left – we harvest a bit smaller
pure white flesh
firm, crisp texture
juicy
spicy flavour

vienna-F1-radish

2. French Breakfast

long,tapering radish
bright red skin with a white tip
crisp, crunchy flesh
delicate, mild taste
quick growing

french-breakfast-radish

Children love to grow and harvest radish as thye are such quick growers.

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Winter Salads Growing Well

TopVeg — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:47:07 +0000

The oriental salad mix is growing well and providing a continuous crop of winter salad.

oriental-mix-Dec12th

The oriental salad seeds were sown directly into the soil in the greenhouse in September.

The leaves are big enough to be harvested with scissors after about 8-10 weeks. After cutting, more leaves grow, providing a constant supply of winter salad leaves.

oriental-salad-mix

The mix includes leaf Mustards, Golden Streaked and Red, Komatsuna, Mizuna and Sky Rocket. The different shapes, colours and textures of the leaves makes an interesting salad. Some of the leaves have a peppery taste adding a sharp tang.

Click this link to buy a packet of oriental salad mix. It is surprising how much winter salad this oriental mix has produced and it is still growing well in mid December.

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Sow Seed for Winter Salad Leaves now

TopVeg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:35:56 +0000

There is still time to sow some seeds now for winter salad leaves.

niche salad leaves

Sow the seeds in a sheltered part of the garden, or in a container:

away from cold winds
in dry soil that drains well
in shallow rows

Sow a few seeds of winter salad every few days until mid-November, to give a continuous supply.

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Winter Salad Leaves to Sow in the Autumn

TopVeg — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:33:45 +0000

Winter salad leaves are excellent value, especially oriental varieties
and they should be sown, now, in the autumn. These cut-and-come-again
salad leaves can be grown outside in the vegetable garden, in tubs or in
window boxes. They grow well in the cooler temperatures and lower light
levels of autumn.

Salad leaves to sow in autumn are:

Rocket
small, mild tender leaves

rocket

Land Cress – Variegated Winter
crisp & tangy

land cress variegated

Mizuna – good taste & crunchy stem

Mustard---Mizuna

This patch of Mustard – variety Mizuna – is doing well in Yorkshire. The
center leaves are cut out with scissors, & provide fresh winter salad
leaves with a bite!

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Cucumber

TopVeg — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:50:03 +0000

This is the first cucumber that Gill has ever grown!

cucumber-cut

The cucumber was grown in a glass house and tasted delicious.

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The Vegetable Wall

TopVeg — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:25:56 +0000

The vegetable wall is a hit at the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show.

Biotecture Ltd are showing a vegetable wall, planted with an array of salad leaves, for Pat Fox of Aralia Garden Design. The whole design is that of an outdoor kitchen, with fresh leaves ready to eat.

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Supporting Tomato Plants.

TopVeg — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:25:50 +0000

Supporting Tomatoes
Bush types require no supports.
The main stem of cordon types needs supporting to stop it falling over. Canes or strings can be used.

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tie tomato stem each 30 cm

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If canes are used to support the tomato plants, the main stem should be tied loosely to the cane as it grows. So there will be a string holding the stem to the cane every 30cm or so. Soft string should be used, so that it does not cut into the stem.

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