{"id":9244,"date":"2014-11-06T00:59:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T07:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:22:20","slug":"growing-for-vegetarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-for-vegetarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing for Vegetarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Pepper by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4340579874\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2802\/4340579874_a0b7901cd4.jpg\" alt=\"Pepper\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What should grow in a garden to help feed\u00c2\u00a0 vegetarians. This is a conundrum posed for me by two of my children.<br \/>\nIf I were a vegetarian I would want three things from my garden.<\/p>\n<h3>1.\u00c2\u00a0 Large and reliable crops from the space and effort<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I would start with simple fruit like Raspberries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Apples are heavy croppers for the space needed particularly if you grow on a small root stock. The added advantage is most apples can be stored, bottled or frozen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Rhubarb is a personal favourite and a reliable cropper\u00c2\u00a0 to eat fresh or in jams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gooseberries or thornless Blackberries would also feature on my list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Then I would think about growing chips, mashed, new, roast, baked and mashed potatoes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Tasty, flavoursome, appetising,\u00c2\u00a0 succulent produce<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Herbs are an obvious choice. Whilst they may only be required in small quantities who would be without Basil, Parsley or Sage and Onion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Onion may be cheating a bit in the herb list but they are an easy vegetable to grow from sets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Garlic is one of the strongest flavours (I have never grown Washabi) and I would plant several varieties in sunny positions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Fennel by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4339838219\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4053\/4339838219_70bec8e69f.jpg\" alt=\"Fennel\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>3. Crops that are not easily obtainable from shops and supermarkets<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speciality mixed lettuce and vegetables from heritage seeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tomato varieties with a difference including black and orange coloured types.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Considering the airmiles of many supermarket vegetables, try grow anything in season that you will consume straight from the garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Legumes, beans and peas will rapidly become a staple as they have in my garden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/growing-microleaves\/\"> micro-leaves <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/growing-and-sprouting-seeds\/\">sprouting seeds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Aubergine by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4340582358\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2739\/4340582358_6f29002006.jpg\" alt=\"Aubegine\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What crops would you grow in your garden for vegetarians and vegans. Tips on tasty, unusual and high crop yields from fruit and vegetables.<\/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-9244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244","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=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}