[gread]

give me some idears for my plot,whos got what in there plots this year??

[GrannieAnnie]

potatoes, onions and shallots, runner beans, broad beans, butter beans, peas, courgettes, pumpkin, tomatoes, chillies and peppers if they ever germinate, cucumbers, sweetcorn, strawbini, cabbages, cauliflowers, kale, beetroot, parsnips, carrots, leeks.  I think that's it!

[gread]

are u sure thats it??

[GrannieAnnie]

Mmmmm, don't think I left anything out!!!

[GrannieAnnie]

18 varieties of tomatoes and 6 or 7 varieties of chillies (if they grow!)

[shaun]

what are strawbini grannie ?

[gread]

good for you theres plenty there to keep you going and to keep you bizzy...me just got spuds onions shallots and carrots so far

[WG.]

garlic, shallot, onion, tatties, parsnip, carrot, french bean, asparagus*, broad bean, beetroot, spinach, perpetual spinach, chard*, spring onion, lettuce, cabbage, cauli, kale, broccoli, leek, jerusalem artichoke, chinese artichoke*, chile pepper*, bell pepper*, tomato, florence fennel, horseradish*, peas, sprouts, radish, pumpkin, cucumber*, peas, sweet corn*, salsola soda* and about 10 different herbs.  Much of it in quantity 'cos I sell/barter them.

* = first time trying

[GrannieAnnie]

what are strawbini grannie ?

They are sold by Victoriana Nurseries in Kent Shaun.  Looked interesting but not cheap, however I got a few from the River Cottage Seed swap, hope they grow.  This is what Victoriana says about them....

Strawbini's / Strawberry Spinach > Vegetable Seeds
Blitum foliosum / Chenepodium capitatum
This is a name we have chosen for a little known very old vegetable or is it a fruit?
You grow this and eat it as you would spinach, but the surprise is to come! Very tiny at first, then day by day growing bigger in each leaf joint or axil of the plant appears Raspberry coloured like fruit. Do not be too anxious to pick. Leave until they become dark crimson red, then pick. So sweet and delicious, Something different? No very old ! By repute these were cultivated by German monks over 400 years ago!
Grows to 2ft tall. Whilst usually grown as an annual it can overwinter if weather is not too severe and is perennial in habit.
In March, sow thinly, the seed is very small, in rows 18" apart and then thin plants to 10" apart or raise in seed trays and transplant May onwards.


Can't wait to see if they grow!!!!!1

[Bigbadfrankie]

Garlic, spuds, onions, shallotts, carrots, Pack choi, sweede, letuce, beetroot, stock, lupins, sunflower, Parsnips, toms , raddish, cucumber, aubergene, beans, peas, sweetcorn, squash, spring onion, leeks, cabbage, brockli, sprouts, courgetts, peppers, chilles, Rubarb.

[shaun]

sounds intresting you will have to let us know how they turn out

[GrannieAnnie]

Oh forgot, spring onions, silverskin onions, lettuces and rocket, radicchio, basil and coriander, and oregano!!!!

[gread]

plenty there to keep all you peeps bizzy.....u all wate this time next year ill have just as much in my plot......im not bitter  

[GrannieAnnie]

still got time to plant more gread, have you got room

[GrannieAnnie]

sounds intresting you will have to let us know how they turn out

If they grow Shaun, I'll take a photo and put it on here, sounds good doesn't it? veg and dessert all in one plant!!!!