TopVeg – growing veg,fruit&herbs

Baby or mini vegetables are what the modern household requires – small, but perfectly formed vegetables.

Mini veg are produced in several ways:

• plants which naturally produce tiny fruit like cherry tomatoes

CherryTomatoes

• harvesting vegetables when young – such as  carrots

first-carrots

• planting seed close together – such as  Leek King Richard, which can be direct sown  closer together, without the need to transplant for mini leeks

leek-plants-trimmed

• special mini cultivars produce baby fruit from compact plants

examples include:

• baby sweetcorn – minor
• beetroot – pablo
• broad beans – stereo

• broccoli – kabuki
• cabbage – shelta

• carrots – Mokum
• cauliflower – avalanche
• chard – duo

• courgette – black forest
• cucumber – fanfare
• leeks – lancelot

• lettuce – mini green
• pepper – mohawk
• radish – rougette
• runner beans – summer medley Hestia
• salad leaves
• spinach – galaxy
• tomatoes - Vilma
• turnip – primera

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.