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How to Grow Vegetables

Daniel Dohrman · May 15, 2022 ·

Here is our guide to growing the vegetable we grow. In our how to guides we go through varieties we grow, when we grow them, how we care for them and common issue.

How to Grow Beetroot

A nice beetroot ready for harvest

Beetroot is a versatile and easy to grow vegetable. You can use it in a salad, burger, pasta or anything else your imagination would like. The deep, earthy flavour can be a feature of a dish or a nice accompaniment.

How to Grow Broccoli

Broccoli grown in the aquaponics

Broccoli is a cool-season vegetable and belongs to the brassica family and is another favourite of ours to grow. It is a great producer as the one plant can yield several heads.

How to Grow Celeriac

Giant-prague-celeriac-growing-well-

Celeriac is always something I have wanted to try to grow right from a kid, but because they are not well known or widely used, I have not prioritised growing them.

How to Grow Cucumber

National pickling cucumbers ready for pickling

Cucumbers: from the heart of a summer salad, pickled or just freshly sliced, why wouldn’t you grow want to grow your own fresh cucumbers?

How to Grow Garlic

Once garlic is growing it require very little maintenance

Garlic is one of those essential items when cooking in the kitchen and in the gardening world similar to tomatoes your gardening skill is rated on how well you can grow garlic.

How to Grow Jerusalem Artichokes

Jerusalem Artichoke flowers

Jerusalem artichoke is also known as sunchoke, earth apple and sunroot and produces an edible tuber similar looking to ginger.

How to Grow Kale

Red russian, black tuscan and curly kale growing together

Kale has earned its reputation of being a superfood by being rich in vitamins, magnesium, iron and anti-oxidants.

How to Grow Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi grown in the Aquaponics

Kohlrabi (Brassica oleracea gongylodes)belongs to the brassica family but produces a turnip-like bulb on its stem. Both the bulb and leaves are edible and it makes a great substitute for potatoes.

How to Grow Lettuce

Scatter-sown-lettuce

Lettuce is a very easy to grow vegetable and is one of the most used vegetables for salads. They will just about grow anywhere, whether it’s in your garden bed or little pot on the patio. Lettuce is a quick-growing crop, so they are perfect for sowing into your garden when you have space free.

How to Grow Mangel Wurzel

White Mangel Wurzel

Have you ever heard of Mangel wurzel? Neither had we until recently. After researching we decided to try growing it this past winter and were surprised at how easy it was to grow. Mangel wurzel is also known as fodder beet, mangold, mangel beet and field beet and belong to the same family as beetroot and chard.

How to Grow Pumpkins

Our pumpkin harvest 2021

Pumpkins are a great vegetable to grow in the garden, they are easy to grow, keep for a long time and the golden flesh they have is just delicious whether it’s roasted, in a soup or a salad.

How to Grow Tomatoes

A roma tomato loaded with tomatoes

In the gardening world, it seems everyone rates your gardening skills by how well you can grow tomatoes. Tomatoes themselves are not necessarily hard to grow but are prized by the gardener. Once you have had organically homegrown tomatoes to eat, you’re never going back.

How to Grow Zucchini

Gold Rush Zucchini

Over the warmer months zucchini become one of our staples and can be used widely from raw in salad to chips or roasted.

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