Small fresh vegetables taste nice and often have a superior texture. The supermarket versions are expensive and often have lots of food miles attached to them so try growing your own.
Mini Veg Tips
- Plant them close together – try several leeks in the same hole
- Harvest early and often – baby beetroot don’t have time to get woody and hard
- Choose seed that is appropriate – cherry tomatoes can be a bountiful crop
- Turnip, fennel and kohl rabi can produce spindly roots if the soil is not kept moist
- Carrot varieties to try include ‘Nantes’, ‘Amini’, ‘Mignon’, ‘Minicor’
- Cut courgettes and squash when small at least 3 times per week, to increase yields and extend the season. Most Fi hybrids are suitable, try: ‘Ambassador’, ‘Moreno’, ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Storr’s Green’, ‘Sunburst’
Try small veg in your salads for something a bit different.
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