At this time of year, the tomato crop is in full swing, and the great thing about planting heirloom tomatoes is the variety. At any given point, our fruit bowl is full of ripening tomatoes, red and yellow, small and large. We pluck them off the plants as soon as they start to colour up, [...]
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Heirloom tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged heirloom, preserving, summer, tomatoes on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bright red radishes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beetroots, carrots, daikon, heirloom, leeks, onions, potatoes, radishes, shallots, spring onions, turnips, winter on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
These French breakfast radishes are super cute! Baby-sized and bright red, these are ready for the picking. They are also one of Miss P’s favourites. We’ve got plenty of other root crops in the ground at the moment, some fast-growing but most taking their time: beetroots heirloom radishes (various colours) heirloom carrots (various colours) daikon [...]
Growing from seed
Posted in Growing our own food, Useful resources, tagged gardening, heirloom, seedlings, seeds on June 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A lot of what we’ve grown has been from seed, rather than seedlings. What has been interesting is that plants from seeds have consistently grown quicker and stronger than seedlings. For example, our sugar snap peas from seeds are gowing incredibly, while the seedlings of snow peas from the local garden store have barely moved [...]
