Mini vegetables

[caseylee]

this may be a stupid question but why buy min veg seeds can't you just pull things out the ground earlier or are they made only to grow a certain size.

[caseylee]

[valmarg]

Certainly with Minipop corn, you pick the cobs just as the tassels are appearing, as opposed to the 'big' corn cobs, which you wait until the tassels have dried.  If you leave the Minipops the core gets as tough as old boots.

Apart from that, I'm not sure.  For example we grow carrots in containers, and once they have a reasonably round neck, we pull them.

Apart from the above, haven't grown any mini varieties.

valmarg

[Jeannine]

I have been buying some for the kids at school because they appear small to them on the packets, but when you think about it..think of tomatoes,some mini some maxi.

I have some carrotts that never get big.

..and with corn of course it is only the cobs that are small, the plant is still big so mystery mini veggies eh?

XX Jeannine

[davyw1]

I always thought that Mini Veg ( not corn ) was created for patio growing in growbags and pots

[saddad]

Allegedly... I think it is just a marketing scam... but somebody might know better!
;D

[Jeannine]

Some of it Saddad , well maybe just a list of small stuff put together with a marketing name. Bush cukes for pots for eg.

We are planning a biggish project in pots this year, I ma looking froward to the challenge actually

XX Jeannine