Has anyone grown mini vegetables (deliberately, that is :))?
Quite often there's only the two of us for a meal and, for example, we don't really need a full size cauli.
we grow a mini cauli called idol, grow the same as ord apart from spacing, just enough for the two of us :)
Can't see the point, bung the extra in the freezer. Or invite me around for dinner ;D
:) I'm with Ace fridge or freezer it will keep fine, so thats dinner for four. :D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I never grow them deliberately ... but I'm the 'sort' that is out there with my harvesting basket shouting "WE'VE GOT BABY SPROUTS, BEETROOT THE SIZE OF POODLE_TESTICLES AND LEEKS LIKE SMALL GREEN PENCILS FROM THE EARLY LEARNING CENTRE"
Sainsburys charge about £6.00 per kilo for this sort of produce you know.
also, they're ready earlier, we pick lots of stuff early as well, why buy it when you can eat it young, baby carrots, yum :)
Also, I was thinking that since next year I'm trying to grow all my brassica in just two 4ft x 9ft beds we could achieve a bit more variety - with standard planting you'd only get about 12 caulis in an entire bed, whereas it looks as if I could get well over 40 two person caulis in half a bed.
By the way Trixie, I also managed to grow baby leeks - disappointing for me, but OH and stepdaughter loved them! :)
we also grew a small, beautifully crisp, red cabbage, called red cap, in the instructions, it says allow 10" between plants for baby heads, we were using just two 12' x4' beds last year as the others weren't ready, also wanted kohl rabi, swede under cover so they had to be fairly small :)
we grew mini sweetcorn this year and they were sensational. Packet said i think 4 per plant, which was crazy-must have had 8-10.
Grew mini carrots in a tub "Parmex" Too fiddly to scrub/peel. Better off with a normal stumpy variety and eat them small........
Has anyone tried baby beetroot?
I like the sound redcap, thanks Manic
just took the beetroot every other one small and left the others to get bigger
We grow Minipop Sweet Corn and 8-10 per plant is not unusual can get 20 on good plants...
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Trixiebelle - I feel your pain.
I suffer badly from vegetables that are just too cute to eat!!
I left my leeks in for an extra year, and they bolted into the most gorgeous flowers!! I thought "Nevermind, leeks are cheap in the supermarket!"