Our delivery from the Organic Gardening Catalogue, which included the biggest bag of mulch ever. Not seen here because it’s a big bag of mulch.
Here’s what we plan to grow:
- Aubergines. Three varieties: Rosa Bianca (a fat round one), Little Fingers (baby aubergines, one of my favourite veg, amazing on a bbq), and Black Beauty (your regular old long one, apaz a “dependable cropper”, according to good old Mark Diancono).
- Courgettes. Two varieties: Rondo di Nizza (another fat round one, because fat and round is fun), and Albarello di Sarzana (another Marky D recommendation).
- Potatoes. Charlotte (nice quality new potatoes) and Red Duke of York (first earlies).
- Squash. Harrier F1 Hybrid, early fruiting summer butternut.
- Runner beans. “Celebration” and “Kelvedon Marvel”.
- Carrots. Unknown variety: a Christmas present from my mum, from Oxfam….
- Tomatoes. Undecided, we’re going to get plants, probably from the nice man from Tomato World, at Dig This Nursery in New Cross.
Others we’re still considering:
- Shallots
- Pea Beans (we already have the seeds, from Brown Envelope Seeds, S’s aunty’s company.
- Garden Peas. Another present from Mum, from Oxfam. Dubious.
- Some kind of “seed bomb”, comprised of tomato, pumpkin, cucumber, and radish seeds. Another Christmas present from Mum, by the Espresso Mushroom Company. Goes against everything I’ve read so far about where and how to plant veg. We have an odd patch at the end of our garden, kind of a ledge that has rose bushes growing on it. We might just chuck some up there. It gets a lot of sun, but the foxes probably do piss up there quite a lot.
We already have rosemary, thyme, some struggling mint, sweet peas, and marigold seedlings.
The lovely people at the Centre for Wildlife Gardening in Peckham gave us the broad beans you can see on the right of this picture. They seem to be happy so far.
We got some of our seeds from the Organic Gardening Catalogue, others we had lying around or were given to us.
Dirty hoe 