Accord potatoes are:
Click this link to order some Accord seed potatoes, which are a first early variety.
The strawberry variety Flamenco is ideal for gardeners who are short of space, or use containers, as it produces lots of sweet, juicy strawberries over a long period.
Strawberry-present
Click this link to buy some Strawberry Flamenco plants, which can be planted out in the vegetable garden or grown in pots & containers on the patio.
Baby or mini vegetables are what the modern household requires – small, but perfectly formed vegetables.
Mini veg are produced in several ways:
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examples include:
Gone are the days when a cabbage or cauliflower lasts a family a week – sections of the head being cut off and cooked each day. Now a baby or mini veg will provide a mature cabbage or cauliflower which is small enough to be eaten by one or two people in one sitting. If the household is larger, the baby mini veg provide the opportunity to present a selection of fresh vegetables, by using several different mini veg for one meal.
Baby or mini vegetables are becoming very popular and there are good reasons for growing them:
pulled-carrots
The list of baby mini vegetables is growing every year as new mini cultivars are developed. Some examples are:
Have you tried any varieties of mini veg that we could add to this list?
This book from Amazon discusses growing vegetables in pots:
There are many good reasons to grow a few baby mini veg this year.
A lot of people want to grow potatoes, but think it is impossible because they have not got a big garden, can plant the potatoes in containers.
Thompson & Morgan have an easy solution with their patio planters collection.
patio planters
The green, woven-plastic container will fit on a porch, verandah, or patio. The container is big enough to grow 4 or 5 seed potatoes, and can be used over and over again. So it would be exciting to plant a second crop when the first ones have been harvested, to give some new potatoes at Christmas.
Click on this link to buy patio planters if you would like to grow potatoes in containers.
The oriental salad mix is growing well and providing a continuous crop of winter salad.
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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.
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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.
tomato-patio-planter
This tomato patio planter will hold quite a collection of tomatoes, providing delicious salads as well as a charming feature on the patio.
Teamed up with tomato seeds and tomato fertiliser, the tomato patio planter makes a great gift for the gardener or a welcome Christmas present.
Click this link to buy the tomato patio planter, with seeds and fertiliser for £28.99.
Gloria Bonde grows beautiful scarlet runner beans every year in a window box with a curved trellis rustically made of dogwood twigs that curves over the window box window.
Gloria says “They are so easy to grow. They have a beautiful red bloom.”
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Beans are so attractive and both flowers & beans come in many shapes & sizes . The new midwinter broad bean has beautiful flowers in shades of pink & red and seeds that are red, or that turn purple at maturity.
Cupid is a great variety of strawberry to grow in the garden or in containers.
cupid strawberry
Cupid strawberry is:
Click the link below for more details of this book about growing fruit.
Click this link to buy some Cupid Strawberry plants.
There is still time to sow some seeds now for winter salad leaves.
niche salad leaves
Sow a few seeds of winter salad every few days until mid-November, to give a continuous supply.
Click this link to see which salad leaves are good to grow for winter.
This book shows how to grow vegetables in a small space
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