{"id":18135,"date":"2017-02-16T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T10:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18135"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T11:26:09","slug":"root-vegetables-a-gardeners-and-bakers-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/root-vegetables-a-gardeners-and-bakers-dozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Root Vegetables a Gardeners and Bakers Dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After salad crop failures in Spain and shortages of courgettes, broccoli and other &#8216;long distance&#8217; vegetables gardeners could to worse than focus on traditional and non-traditional root crops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0754830942\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0754830942.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chinese artichoke<\/strong>,\u00c2\u00a0<em>Stachys affinis <\/em>was popular in Edwardian times. It is a sprawling plant that produces knobbly roots for baking, mashing, frying or stir frying. Harvest as needed, after a long growing season, as they do not store well<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> Jicama or Yam bean have<\/strong> crunchy roots similar to dahlia tubers useful for adding to salads.Can only be stored for about a month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rampion<\/strong> have a strong taste, knobbly and fiddly roots and would be at the end of our list of experiments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hamburg parsley<\/strong> is popular in Germany with edible, evergreen leaves. Roots are upto 8inches long. Roast or use in stew.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salsify and Scozonera<\/strong> look and taste similar and have been grown in the UK for hundreds of yaers . Salsify or Oyster plant, is biennial Scozonera is a hardy perennial that grows 3ft high.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mouli or winter Radish<\/strong> cultivars of Raphanus sativus grow to the size of grapefruit. Round black are best for storing and all varieties red and yellow are prone to bolting unless sown after mid-summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweet potato Beauregard<\/strong> has been cultivated for UK growing and is available from Marshalls, Thompson Morgan and others. Protect from frost. Tubers tend to be smaller Sweet Potato &#8216;T65&#8217;. They have salmon-orange flesh and a sweet\u00c2\u00a0 flavour.<\/p>\n<h3>Old faithful Root crops<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Potato<\/li>\n<li>Carrot<\/li>\n<li>Swede, turnip and rutabaga<\/li>\n<li>Beet and manglewurzels<\/li>\n<li>Parsnips<\/li>\n<li>Jerusalem Artichoke<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Root out some Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Root crops are generally heavy feeders.<\/li>\n<li>Roots will &#8216;fang&#8217; or fork if the soil has been freshly manured.<\/li>\n<li>To get the straightest roots avoid stony soil and keep soil light<\/li>\n<li>Plenty of water and high potash feed will help grow better crops.<\/li>\n<li>Grow in full sun with adequate space and avoid competition from weeds.<\/li>\n<li>Look after the leafy tops to get good underground growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After salad crop failures in Spain and shortages of courgettes, broccoli and other &#8216;long distance&#8217; vegetables gardeners could to worse than focus on traditional and non-traditional root crops. Chinese artichoke,\u00c2\u00a0Stachys affinis was popular in Edwardian times. It is a sprawling plant that produces knobbly roots for baking, mashing, frying or stir frying. Harvest as needed, after a long growing season, as they do not store well Jicama or Yam bean have crunchy roots similar to dahlia tubers useful for adding&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/root-vegetables-a-gardeners-and-bakers-dozen\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}