If you want to confuse your friends try feeding them Green Zebra Tomatoes. These were bred in the 1980’s by the famous tomato breeder Tom Wagner and whilst ripe tomatoes will take on a slightly yellow tone, they never stray far from the name that they are given.
Tag: Grow your own
Tomato Principe Borghese
The weather in the UK is rarely good enough to sun dry tomatoes but having recently bought a dehydrator I decided to grow some tomatoes specifically bread for sun drying.
Kale – Peacock Tail Mix F1
Kale is one of the those vegetables that we all know is healthy but quite often don’t like it very much so it is often relegated to smoothies, crispy seaweed or crisps.
French Bean – Purple Teepee
I grew purple teepee attracted by the idea of having wonderful purple beans easy to see above the foliage. This was for both looks with the wonderful colour contrast between purple and green but also ease of harvesting I’ve always found purple beans hard to see against the earth.
French Bean – Golden Teepee
I first tried tepee beans attracted by the idea of having plants that proudly display their beans on top of the foliage, rather than rooting around under the leaves to find them and less chance of dirt splash back.
Courgette – Zuccini
The Italian for corgette is Zuccini so these are effectively corgette corgette. Despite the unoriginal naming these are a good corgette plant.
Potato – Winston
I’ve not had much success growing first earlies that get to a large enough size to be bakers.
Courgette – Romanesco
If you want to grow a well behaved corgette with flavour then you won’t go far wrong with this one.
Pea Carouby De Maussane
Carouby de maussane is a heritage mangetout type pea. It’s has pretty purple tinted flowers and the pods themselves have an unusual translucent quality and unusually still remains tender even when the peas have started to form.
Broad Bean – De Monica
De Monica is advertised as one of the earliest spring down broad beans to harvest and should from a Feb planting it is claimed be ready to harvest in May.
Making The Bed
I’m still playing around with the perfect layout for my plot. Last year I tried 4ft beds going across the plot. These seemed a bit narrow so this year I went for 5ft beds which fitted perfectly along the plot, which also takes advantage of the slight south slope.
Tabula Rasa In Action
The new year begins and we practice patience, waiting for the perfect time to prepare the soil for the year ahead. Too much rain and the allotment turns into a bog, too little and the heavy clay becomes concrete.
Tabula Rasa 