What to Do
Episode: # 11 16/06/07
Presenter: Melissa King
There has never been an easier or better time to start growing your own food. Home grown always tastes better, fresh picked has incredible nutritional value plus there is the pleasure you get from serving up something that you have grown yourself.
Melissa decides to give you a sneak peak at what vegetables are going to be on offer in garden centres for planting this winter and spring.
Tried and true varieties are worth their weight in gold – so there are some old favourites, alongside a few newies that are definitely worth a try. The biggest trend we are seeing is in the area of miniature vegetables – proof that you can have a productive garden in the smallest of spaces.
Broccolette is another gourmet choice. It is a multi- stemmed broccoli in the Delish Range of gourmet vegetables. It is easy to grow and highly productive over a long harvest season. Best of all it can be planted year round and it is perfect cut fresh and tossed into the stir fry.
Eggplant ‘Little Fingers’ is also perfect for smaller gardens and pots, and as the name suggests produces loads of small finger like fruit – delicious char-grilled. Or for something different try the white eggplant ‘Mohican’.
Once you have grown your own tomatoes, there is definitely no going back to the supermarket. ‘Piccolo Roma’ is the first of the new mini Roma tomatoes and it is apart of the Gurus range.
At the bigger end of the scale is Abruzzi Bruschetta is another guru variety that is right up there for taste. It has a large, beefsteak-type fruit which means it has gutsy flavour and a meaty texture. It is really good on garlic toast drizzled with olive oil.
Sweet peppers or capsicums are as good to look at as they are to eat and while green and red peppers are most well-known, there are more colours than you might realize.
Try Capsicum Mini Bell with red, yellow and orange fruits which bring colour to the garden and the plate.
If you love a meal laced with beautiful chillies then you will enjoy chilli ‘Costa rica’. It is as exotic as its name with purple-black foliage and fruit which matures from black to red.
From new and unusual to those trusted old favourites - Melissa would definitely recommend putting these varieties on your planting list for winter and spring.
Presenter: Melissa King
There has never been an easier or better time to start growing your own food. Home grown always tastes better, fresh picked has incredible nutritional value plus there is the pleasure you get from serving up something that you have grown yourself.
Melissa decides to give you a sneak peak at what vegetables are going to be on offer in garden centres for planting this winter and spring.
Tried and true varieties are worth their weight in gold – so there are some old favourites, alongside a few newies that are definitely worth a try. The biggest trend we are seeing is in the area of miniature vegetables – proof that you can have a productive garden in the smallest of spaces.
Broccolette is another gourmet choice. It is a multi- stemmed broccoli in the Delish Range of gourmet vegetables. It is easy to grow and highly productive over a long harvest season. Best of all it can be planted year round and it is perfect cut fresh and tossed into the stir fry.
Eggplant ‘Little Fingers’ is also perfect for smaller gardens and pots, and as the name suggests produces loads of small finger like fruit – delicious char-grilled. Or for something different try the white eggplant ‘Mohican’.
Once you have grown your own tomatoes, there is definitely no going back to the supermarket. ‘Piccolo Roma’ is the first of the new mini Roma tomatoes and it is apart of the Gurus range.
At the bigger end of the scale is Abruzzi Bruschetta is another guru variety that is right up there for taste. It has a large, beefsteak-type fruit which means it has gutsy flavour and a meaty texture. It is really good on garlic toast drizzled with olive oil.
Sweet peppers or capsicums are as good to look at as they are to eat and while green and red peppers are most well-known, there are more colours than you might realize.
Try Capsicum Mini Bell with red, yellow and orange fruits which bring colour to the garden and the plate.
If you love a meal laced with beautiful chillies then you will enjoy chilli ‘Costa rica’. It is as exotic as its name with purple-black foliage and fruit which matures from black to red.
From new and unusual to those trusted old favourites - Melissa would definitely recommend putting these varieties on your planting list for winter and spring.
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