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Originally Posted by Wyrdlight
Hello!
I am after some advice in regards to growing vegetables and other tasty morsels.
I have spent a some time over the last couple of afternoons digging over and clearing a patch in my parents garden to use a veggie patch. The patch is south-facing with a fence on the north side and tall shrubs on the east and west so the position is fairly sheltered though it does get a goodly ammount if sun. The soil is on the acidic side though is rich and dark from the 3 large sacks of manure enriched compost i dug into it last year. It also contains huge number of earth worms which i assume is a good thing?
The plot is only small, around 18 sqaure feet but i do have at my disposal a large patio with enough space for a large number of grow-bags and assorted pots.
I tried to grow veggies last yeah on the patch described above, spring onion and salsify but they failed miserably, mostly due to ( i think) the mini bio-degradeable grow-pouches i planted the seeds in to give them a head start, they turned out to be not so bio-degradeable and served only to strangle the plants and prevent root growth i will never buy such a product again!
My question is... what should i plant in the veg patch?
Idealy i would like something fairly easy to grow, yield is secondary to flavour.
I have decided to grow beans on the patio in grow-bags, can anyone suggest some good varities? What else would you recomend i should grow on the patio?
I am reluctant to grow tomatoes, the ones i grew last year bore many fruit, but the fruits were tough-skinned and almost completely tasteless.
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If you like spinach I highly recommend Swiss Chard. Its iron rich with a beautiful flavour and crops for 9 months of the year. Its one of those that you just take the outer leaves and it keeps growing back. I was also converted to white flowering varieties of beans after watching bluetits devouring the flowers and young pods of the runner bean painted lady which has red orange flowers. I now only grow white lady which crops heavily and has good smooth straight beans. I like growing the large leaf mustards too which appear to do well even in freezing conditions, but the pigeons also like to eat it
