Spring is here and it is time to clear the old crops and make way for the new, sowing starts in the polytunnel, a 50ft double-height plastic tunnel built into a drystone wall on a south facing terrace below the potager. The plant debris and weeds are first cleared and the earth lightly worked to [...]
Winter Lettuces
Winter Lettuces are varieties of lettuces that can be sown late in the season, will tolerate cold and low light levels and still provide leaf pickings for the salad bowl right through winter and into spring. Some of my favourite lettuces are these hardy types because they have robust flavours, crisp leaves and good textures. [...]
Seed List 2010
It has taken me some time to find the seeds for the varieties I want to grow this year but I’ve finally done it and this is my selection for 2010. Plenty of old reliable must grow varieties, some new things I am desperate to grow for the kitchen, some varieties that I am growing [...]
Best Preserving Tomatoes
In 2008 I grew a selection of tomatoes for preserving because I wanted to see if there was anything better than my usual favourite, San Marzano. Now that I am thinking about what varieties to grow this year it’s a good time to review my little trial. Tomatoes make some of the most useful and [...]
Seed List 2009
This is my list of the varieties to grow for 2009. It takes years, a life time probably, to find the very best varieties to suit your growing location and the taste of the cook. I grow a large selection, in small amounts, trying new things and continuing with the crops that really work for [...]
Seed List 2008
My seed list is now finalised for 2008. I have to admit it is getting a bit out of hand this year with 33 tomato varieties, 18 lettuces and 32 varieties of capsicum, but they are what I like eating the most so there is reason to this madness. It will be a miracle if [...]
Seed List 2007
This is our list of seeds to grow in 2007. The selection of seeds is fairly extensive and is still being worked on to fine tune and get the best combination of crops for the kitchen throughout the year.
Seed List 2006
This is our selection of seeds for the growing year 2006. Alliums Garlic, Lautrec Problem with diseases try another variety from another supplier Garlic, Violet Germidor Onion Blanc, Hatif de Paris Excellent crop grow more next year to eat young as spring onions as well as mature Onion Blanc, De Rebouillon Superb variety use young [...]
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