Tuesday 7 September 2010

Vegetable varieties

For our own use, we thought it would be a good idea to summarise what has done well or otherwise in the vegetable garden this year. Hopefully this will help decide the plans for next year.
Most of these are still feeding us and will be for some time yet.

Rocket - good yield, bolting quickly
Lollo Rossa - good yield.
Radish (Long White Icicle) - Big yield, bolts quite quickly.
Beetroot (Botardy) - A bit slow, but successive plantings will keep us going for many more weeks.
Spinach (Emilia F1) - bolted very quickly
Spinach Beet (Perpetual) - good so far, just starting to crop it.
Courgette (Patriot F1) - Good, but need to be in back garden to make most of sunshine. Blossom end rot a bit of a problem.
Courgette (Golden) - slow but same as above
Carrot (resistafly) - good yield but inedible due to Carrot fly.
Carrot (Autumn King) - watch this space. We are hoping a later sowing might beat the fly.
Broad Beans (Masterpiece Green Longpod) - phenomenal. Will move to side to shelter from winds next year.
Runner Beans (Armstrong Stringless) - also phenomenal.
Parsnips (Gladiator F1) - Looking good but none pulled yet.
Tomatoes - of the 4 varieties planted only Ailsa Craig has been really impressive. Outdoor Toms at 1000 ft is probably a bit too much to ask. We will probably try them in the window of the garage next year.
Peppers (Big Jim & Mohawk) - both have yielded well, once moved indoors.
Leeks No idea what variety - a neighbour brought them from France, but they are HUGE!
Red Cabbage Also unknown as a gift from neighbours as young plants. Done very well, but take up too much room.
Potatoes (Maris Peer) - Not the variety either of us would have wanted to grow, but the only one we could get late in the day when we decided to grow new tates in containers. Despite not being our kind of tate, it has yielded incredibly well and is still feeding us as it will be for another week or two. Different variety next year, but well worth growing in tubs.

Other than what has already been mentioned, no late season veg have been planted as we intend to do a bit of reorganising the veggie plots.

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