VEGETABLE

Sowing

Planting out

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VARIETY

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COMMENTS

ARTICHOKE

(Globe)

Feb in heat      May

Romanesco

Plenty  of  space required

ASPARAGUS

Feb in heat

May

Pacific Purple

Dariana

3 years to harvest. Plant bare root plants in Winter.

Protect from wind.

AUBERGINE

Feb in heat

May in Greenho.

Apple Green

Striped

Greenhouse

Sow Feb in heat.

BEETROOT

April till May

Chioggia (pink & white rings)

Golden

(yellow)

Boltardy

(Red)

Chioggia sweetest

BORECOLE or

KALE

April

June

Nero  di Toscana

Redbor

Winter standby

Cover with net

Broad beans

Feb in heat

April  outside

Aquadulce

Claudia

Bunyards Exhibition

Red flowered

Sow Spring under cloches

BROCCOLI

(autumn)

March  in  heat

June

Romanesco

(best flavour)

Corvet

Marathon

Cover with Net.

BROCCOLI

(spring)

April  in  heat

June

Early Purple sprouting

Protect from Birds.

BRUSSEL SPROUTS

April  in  heat

June

Peer Gynt

Wellington

Rubine Red

(red)

Steam to retain colour

CABBAGE

March  in  heat

June

Hispi

Golden Acre

Red Flare

Protect from Birds and Cabbage White butterflies.

CABBAGE

(winter)

April  in  heat

June

January King

Tundra

Savoy Ormskirk

Protect from birds with Net.

CAPE GOOSEBERRY

March  in  heat

May

Cape Gooseberry

Greenhouse . Harvest when fruits turn orange.

CARDOON

Feb in heat

May

Cardoon

Protect over winter

CARROT

April - May

Early Nantes

Purple

Autumn King

Purple tastiest

CAULIFLOWER

(summer & autumn)

March  in  heat

June

Moby Dick

Graffiti

(purple)

Panther

(green)

Steam to retain colour 5 to 10 min's max!