Somethings I look forward to all year. Runner beans, picked small , chopped up into inch sections, boiled for five minutes and slathered in butter. If all I could grow was a wigwam of 10 runner bean plants, thats what I would have. I usually grow a lot more and give a lot to neighbours. The difference between picked small and tender against shop bought old and woody is amazing. So much so that I will not buy beans from a shop at all, so I have something to look for next year. Snap peas are good. For shelled peas I buy Birdseye petit pois. Home grown Kale is better and seemingly more digestible than shop bought. Pea and bean and tomato seeds keep for years. Onion and parsnip seed need to be fresh that season.
We only have a tiny veg plot now, having had an allotment in the past. So for us, how much to sow is dependent on the space we have available and what to grow is down to what we prefer to eat fresh from the garden. For us that is mainly cavolo nero kale, chard and climbing French beans, as well as a few pots of tomatoes. But we are spoiled where we live - our local greengrocer always has a wide variety of veg from local growers so it is easy for us to get good stuff when it is in season without growing it ourselves. Oh - and beetroot tops are delicious! So I'll be growing some beetroot this year to enjoy those as the beetroot at the greengrocer comes without tops.
Dogmum i aim to please. those just a few of 50,000+ pages of vegetable gardening magazine and newspaper articles. not counting books i read or scanned on the subject. my research has also been credited in two books.
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be found in charts and formula john jeavons book
" how to grow more vegetables"
or you could use this chart in better & homes and garden
magazine from 1944 p 20-21
https://archive.org/details/sim_better-homes-and-gardens_1944-01_22_5/page/20/mode/1up
another good chartbetter homes and garden mar 1943 p 15
https://archive.org/details/sim_better-homes-and-gardens_1943-03_21_7/page/n14/mode/1up
Oh - and beetroot tops are delicious! So I'll be growing some beetroot this year to enjoy those as the beetroot at the greengrocer comes without tops.
pages of vegetable gardening magazine and newspaper
articles. not counting books i read or scanned on the
subject. my research has also been credited in two books.