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\"squashIt’s good to grow something different.<\/p>\n

You can see how plants grow and experience new flavours.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s an unusual vegetable or just another variety we always try to add to the list of tried and tested here in the Greenside Up garden. This year we’re trying a few new ones, starting with a yet unnamed variety of squash.<\/p>\n

We saved the seeds from a squash that was bought from a local farm gate last autumn. Searching through the seed catalogues has us thinking that they might be of the ‘Blue Ballet’ variety but until the plants mature we’ll \u00a0just have to wait and see (and if they were F1 seeds they’re unlikely to develop true to type anyway).<\/i> The two plants sown are romping away in the tunnel, so much so that I cleared away the Phacelia this morning that I’d sown in front of them to attract the pollinating bees in.<\/p>\n

\"florenceNext up is Florence Fennel. This is the bulb plant and not the wispy herb. It was touch and go whether any would survive as the tiny seedlings resembled the weeds growing close by and many were inadvertently pulled up. A few have survived however, and we’re looking forward to cooking the aniseed flavoured veg when it matures.<\/p>\n

\"Grow

Grow Your Own Kale<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve grown a couple of different varieties of kale over the years, and always try to sow the hardy curly kale for some winter veg. This year we’ve added red kale to add some variety to our dinner plates\u00a0and some Black Russian just because it’s a different shape.<\/p>\n

\"kohlI’ve been looking forward to sowing some wacky looking Kohl Rabi so this spring added them to the beds too. They’re still pretty small and we lost some due to the rampaging cattle that visited recently but I love them for their individuality and colour…<\/p>\n

Last year we grew a tall variety of French beans in the polytunnel. They grew so rapidly we could have climbed up them to meet the giants. They were also full of strange-looking spiders and it was left to our 10-year-old daughter and a friend (invited around for tea lots that month) to pick them.<\/p>\n

\"Looking

Three Sisters Planting in August<\/p><\/div>\n

This year I’ve chosen a dwarf variety so that I can pick them myself.<\/p>\n

Lastly we’ve added to the companion plants with the introduction of Poached Egg Plant sown directly into the bed in front of the broad beans, which have always suffered with the little pest black bean aphid. This pretty little annual attracts hoverflies whose larvae eat aphids so fingers crossed they’ll arrive in time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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