Vegetable Growing 2025

chickweed tastes like those sprouted seeds i see for sale. not awful but not my favourite

 

I don't have chickweed but I've noticed the bittercress is growing.

 

Greenhouse garlic and mustards sown between them. I normally do plugs for the winter salads but decided to try densely direct sowing them this time

 

What mustards do you grow? Do you eat them raw or cooked?
I planted some purple bok choys but I think itll be a long time till harvest, if any. The lettuce I sowed a month ago is doing great though.

 

The seed packet says Salad leaves, Oriental mustard. The other thing I grow is Mizuna. They all produce quite fine frilly leaves. We eat them raw added to salad. Similar taste to Rocket.
Note these are NOT the same as mustard used for green manure which are tough and bitter.

 

Yeah various mizunas like lime streaked, red. Red and green frills mustard, wasabina, golden streaks is another although I don't think I planted that. I prefer these to things like pak choi as slugs like that more

Mizuna is probably the most useful being less hot and a bit more substantial. I just eat them all in salads, on sandwiches and wraps etc. I find they go a bit stringy when cooked, that might be a technique issue though

 

I grew a dark Mizuna a few years ago as I thought it would be a nice contrast to other salad leaves. Unfortunately, the slugs also thought so and it was totally decimated by them.
On the plus side, other plants, including lettuce, got a bit of a break from them!

 

Had a chance to go back to the spot I saw our native wood sorrel many years ago and found some again, took some of the stolons home. Hopefully it grows well in a pot, was fairly tasty but more grassy than one of the urban species I tried. We will see how the new foliage tastes.

 

Got to the Allotments today, for the first time in several weeks. I spent most of the time going through the stored spuds and fruit. Only two "bad" spuds had to be chucked out. Unfortunately I can't say the same about the pears and Apples. After that I cut some cabbage, small secondary heads, I do have one large head left, plus Kale and sprouts
I haven't checked the parsnips yet, fingers crossed they are OK for the Christmas table.