| | Plant | Number | Spacing | Spacing in Rows | Notes |
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Artichoke (Globe)
| 1 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | Planted into flower bed Early July. More seedlings planted under kitchen window in Sep. No flowers. Spring planting did better. Plants happy in afternoon sun bed. |
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Artichoke (Jerusalem)
| 1 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | Harvest Jul 14, delicious, small tubers, covered bed with compost. New shoots September. Knee high early Nov, first flowers Jan. Harvested after first frost. Serious fartichokes!!! |
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Asparagus
Purple
| 13 | 45cm | 45cm x 45cm | Huge, tall shoots up to top of tunnel |
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Asparagus
| 14 | 45cm | 45cm x 45cm | Harvesting from Sep. Straggly, prob from uncovering crowns too much in Spring. Keep well mulched and well watered. Left mid Dec to from fronds. |
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Aubergine
Delle Uova
| 11 | 40cm | 35cm x 45cm | More pretty than good to eat. Produced well. Lots of seeds in small hard thick skinned fruit. |
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Aubergine
Black Beauty
| 4 | 40cm | 35cm x 45cm | Flowering Jan, seedlings from A, small but good |
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Basil
| 14 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | 1 plant in a pot from last season, planted out Oct. Seedlings from Alita tp Late Oct, Looking a little yellow, lack of water in Jan. Fed manure etc and flourished until frosts. Excellent pesto |
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Bay
| 1 | 45cm | 45cm x 60cm | Frost killed back, new shoot Oct, harvest and dry before first frost. Potted and sent to CT |
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Beans (Broad)
Violetta
| 60 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | 20 is 10/8 GG, 12 germinated, tiny worm holes, some pods eaten, good producer. Need 4 beds, not 1, overall disappointing |
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Beans (Dry)
Flageolet
| 10 | 25cm | 20cm x 35cm | sown after garlic harvest, 12/11, no gemination |
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Beans (Dry)
Orca
| 12 | 25cm | 20cm x 35cm | Thandi seed IS 12/10, few g |
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Beans (Dry)
Spanish Black
| 24 | 25cm | 20cm x 35cm | IS 12/10, own seed, ex g, good yield |
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Beans (French)
Yellow Dwarf Beans
| 17 | 25cm | 15cm x 35cm | sown after garlic harvest 12/11, confused between yellow drarf and beurre de roquencort, poor germ |
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Beans (French)
Beaurre de Roquencort
| 32 | 25cm | 15cm x 35cm | GG Guy IS 12/10 next to garlic, 1 g, resown 12/11, few g, finer beans than roquefort, saving seed. Sowed mangetout in gaps in Jan |
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Beans (French)
Roquefort Beans
| 27 | 25cm | 15cm x 35cm | Own seed '13 IS 12/10, ex g, ex yield, not great position, slight green on beans |
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Beans (Runner)
Chinese noodle
| 11 | 25cm | 15cm x 35cm | own seed '14 IS 12/10 ex g Slow growth, bug attack, first beans Jan, tiny yield, not worth growing again |
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Beans (Runner)
Lazy Housewife
| 14 | 25cm | 15cm x 35cm | own seed '14 IS 12/10 ex g fast growth, tied 12/11, producing well in Dec onwards, reliable producer until frosts |
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Beans (Runner)
Scarlet Runner bean
| 27 | 25cm | 15cm x 35cm | own seed '14 IS 12/10, ex g vigorous tied 12/11, lack of water slowed production, ex yield. Faithful |
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Beetroot (Multi-sown)
Detroit Dark Red
| 91 | 15cm | 10cm x 20cm | LS IS mid Sep, fair g, filled gaps with chioggia, delicious harvest Dec, Jan |
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Beetroot (Multi-sown)
Detroit 2 Bolivar
| 91 | 15cm | 10cm x 20cm | Chase, IS mid Oct, fair g, lovely small dark sweet |
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Bergamot
| 1 | 30cm | 30cm x 50cm | frosted down in winter and reshooting Oct, clear out strawberries and move bergamot, died when transplanted. Get more from Carol |
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Blackberry
| 1 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | flowering Early Nov, Fruit Dec, some stolen by chickens, delicious large fruit. |
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Borage
| 1 | 35cm | 30cm x 60cm | self seeded, attracts bees, |
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Cabbage
| 77 | 50cm | 45cm x 55cm | Savoy Drumhead GG-Guy stx12 19/7 6/12, 3 tp mid Oct, one eaten, lovely tight head forming Jan |
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Cabbage (Autumn)
| 8 | 85cm | 80cm x 90cm | |
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Cabbage (Autumn)
Copenhagen Market
| 6 | 85cm | 80cm x 90cm | Molly pinched out centres due to aphids. Still produced smaller heads. |
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Cabbage (Chinese)
| 9 | 40cm | 30cm x 60cm | Went to seed in Aug |
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Cabbage (Red)
| 10 | 50cm | 45cm x 55cm | |
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Carrot
Purple Haze F!
| 195 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | GG-Guy IS mid Oct, covered c plastic xg |
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Carrot
Yellowstone
| 180 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | IS mid Oct, covered c dark plastic, dismal g, lovely long, straight carrots, bland tasting |
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Carrot
Chantenay Karoo
| 16 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | GG poor g |
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Carrot
Kuroda
| 156 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | IS mid Oct below lettuces, covered c plastic, poor g |
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Carrot
Purple Dragon Carrot
| 198 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | LS-Guy IS mid Sep, ex g, no thinning, harvest as needed from Nov to Jan, sweet and pretty, no need to peel |
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Celery
| 15 | 20cm | 15cm x 30cm | Seedlings tp mid Sep, beautiful, earthing up by Nov, More than enough for home |
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Chives
| 1 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | tp from Alpha, frost down, ex recovery, huge yield, |
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Comfrey
| 1 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | frosted down and came up Sep, first comfrey tea started early Nov, poor growth this year. water? |
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Courgette
| 10 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | IS mid Oct (after brassicas out), starke ayers, good g, h from Dec, beautiful, prolific until frost. |
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Cucumber
Ashely
| 5 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | Mayford-Guy stx10 19/7 tp 8/10 poor growth, IS mid Oct. New plants did better, low yield, poss due to dryer bed than last year. Bitter fruit. |
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Cucumber
Snow's Fancy Pickling
| 5 | 60cm | 60cm x 60cm | GG-Guy stx10 19/7 tp7/10 , poorly, more IS mid Oct. A few plants germinated. Poor yield, possilby bed too dry. Good pickles. |
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Echinacea
| 1 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | Freeze seeds 2 w before sowing, forgot in freezer. no joy. |
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Fennel
| 20 | 30cm | 25cm x 35cm | couldn't overwinter, IS interplanted c chard late Oct, 3 g, went to seed. Plant after solstice next time. |
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Fennel (Herb)
| 1 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | self seeded in tunnel, flowering early Nov, collecting seed Dec / Jan |
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Fruit Bush
| 3 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | youngberry, red and black currant, cape gooseberry, Lucy demolished most of flowers - little fruit |
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Garlic
| 90 | 15cm | 10cm x 25cm | planted late, harvest mid Nov, beautiful - 1 long braid |
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Gooseberry
| 1 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | Thandi stx10 10/8/14 100% g, tp early Nov between bush berries, no fruit before frost. |
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Grape Vine
| 1 | 1.50m | 1.50m x 1.50m | new leaves Oct, fruit bracts early Nov, Harvest and bottle jam march |
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Kohlrabi
| 10 | 25cm | 20cm x 30cm | From march '14 Only 3 plants germinated, all but 1 chomped by bagrada bug, small and tough |
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Lavender
| 1 | 40cm | 35cm x 50cm | flowering Oct, Nov |
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Leek
| 204 | 20cm | 15cm x 30cm | own saved seed - short fat, also Varna - long thin, reliably exc. , tp shoots to seed beds, marked flowers to seed |
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Lettuce (Headed)
| 32 | 25cm | 20cm x 30cm | seed tray Meryl early Nov, tp butter lettuce, self seeded reliable |
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Lettuce (Loose Leaf)
| 341 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | GG Paris Island xg, GG Little Gem xg |
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Lettuce (Loose Leaf)
Edible Chrysanthemum
| 19 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | IS late Oct xg |
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Lettuce (Loose Leaf)
Regina di Maggio
| 18 | 10cm | 10cm x 15cm | st 8/10/14 3g tp early Oct, 1 eaten by pests, 2 survived chewy red edged tasty loose leaf, left to seed in Jan |
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Mangetout
| 441 | 10cm | 10cm x 20cm | own seeds from 2012/13 is 10/8/14 between leeks, fill in seeds mid Sep, harvesting from end Oct, 2 plants marked for seed from beg, vig produceer, Mildew and end by beg Jan, new seeds sown Autumn |
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Marigold
Carckerjack Marigold
| 20 | 20cm | 20cm x 20cm | IS early Nov, 0g, seedlings of dwarf in between tomatoes, lost in vines |
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Marjoram
| 1 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | frosted down winter, good growth by Oct, lush |
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Melon
Loofah
| 3 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | st own seed x6 8/10/14, 3g tp end Oct, 2 survived, IS early Nov, one died, one flourishing. Sowed more seed. Yield 4 fruit before frost. Enough for home use. |
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Mint
| 1 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | self propogating in between strawberries |
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Mizuna
| 14 | 25cm | 20cm x 30cm | IS seed bed and in designated place, ex g, 2nd lot demolished by bugs, seed bed lot did well, wilt in heat, 2nd planting autumn very happy. |
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Okra
| 4 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | soaked seeds 2 d before sowing IS, 3 g, fair yield, delicious |
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Onion (Red)
Red Creole
| 192 | 15cm | 10cm x 20cm | |
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Onion (Red)
| 88 | 15cm | 10cm x 20cm | successive seedlings from Alita, some texas grande, some red, 50 onions pulled early Nov huge onions, love ex potato beds, fillers grew out small |
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Oregano
| 1 | 20cm | 15cm x 25cm | |
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Parsnip
Hollow Crown
| 100 | 20cm | 20cm x 30cm | GG-Guy IS mid Oct, xg. resowed, still xg, one plant g by mid Jan, poor g, |
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Pepper
King Arthur
| 6 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | Pretty Gard, seed tray, tp Oct, first flower buds mid Nov, harvest from Dec, great yield |
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Pepper
Malawi Paprika
| 1 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | Malawi Pepperdew LS stx10 19/7 xg, stx10 10/8/14 1g, tp died |
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Pepper
| 5 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | hot chillies stx10 10/8/14, thandi long stx10 10/8/14, mexican sunset stx10 10/8/14 tp in pots |
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Pepper
California Sweet
| 1 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | Kirchoffs stx20 19/7 underheating xg, stx10 10/8/14 3 g tp mid Sep |
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Potatoes (Early)
Mondial
| 21 | 40cm | 35cm x 50cm | Potatoes from Spar, planted Sep, good growth by Nov, red potato bug reduced leaves to lace by Dec. Dug up half of bed early Jan. Low yiled, small potatoes. |
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Potatoes (Maincrop)
Varna
| 48 | 45cm | 35cm x 75cm | LS seed pot planted end Oct. Sprayed with pyrol, nudosan and vegol mid Jan, pig dug up and Molly replanted so many rotted, poor yield |
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Raspberry
| 8 | 70cm | 60cm x 90cm | Good leaf growth by Oct, first berries early Nov, some die off, poss lack of H2O, fruit until frosts |
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Rhubarb
| 5 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | good recovery from frost, well composted in Winter. Huge by Nov, do not like Dec drought Recovered and huge with Jan rains. |
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Rocket
| 18 | 15cm | 10cm x 20cm | transplanted from seedling popping up by themselves in June bagrada bug first seen July. PLants annihilated by October. Tried chilli garlic spray and squashed bug spray and squashing bugs by hand to little effect. New seeds IS 5/11 some g, |
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Rosemary
| 1 | 20cm | 20cm x 20cm | existing in garden, new seedlings |
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Spinach
Giant Noble
| 25 | 20cm | 15cm x 30cm | stx20 10/8/14, 3g, tp early Oct, IS filling in between chard late Oct, Molly weeded, remaining plant healthy, resown in autumn, ex g and ex yield |
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Spring Onion (Multi-sown)
Slender Star
| 198 | 10cm | 10cm x 10cm | IS 5/11, ok g, harvest autumn |
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Squash (Winter)
Waltham Butternut
| 9 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | HL GG stx9 19/7 9/9g tp 1 died, seeds sowed IS to replace, ex yield, Mid Jan harvest 13 and counting, huge harvest until frost, needed bug spray |
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Squash (Winter)
Gem
| 3 | 90cm | 90cm x 90cm | Rolet Starke Ayres stx6 19/7 6/6g, 3 tp early Oct, struggled. Seeds IS 12/10, progress by mid Nov, Fruit by Dec, good yield |
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Strawberry
| 16 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | Harvest from Oct, almost finished by mid Nov (6 w) freeze for later |
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Sweet Potato
| 21 | 45cm | 45cm x 60cm | some runners and bits survived frost, cut and planted 10/10, whole pieces planted early Nov, new shoots mid Nov, 1/4 bed cover by end Dec, h autumn poor yield, low water and early frost |
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Sweetcorn
Strawberry Popcorn
| 32 | 35cm | 30cm x 45cm | 2 beds own seed IS 12/10 ex g, tall and healthy with no bean competition, ex yield, worm problem |
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Sweetcorn
Country Gentleman
| 52 | 35cm | 30cm x 45cm | LS sown ealy Nov in tunnel and mid Nov next to popcorn ex g, Grew very tall under plastic in tunnel, missed sweetcorn stage and then cobs picked underdeveloped, not good for mieliemeel either. Ground and mixed with farm maize |
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Swiss Chard
Spinach Canary Yellow
| 22 | 35cm | 30cm x 40cm | Fordhoek giant recovered from frost then went to seed end Oct, Canary yellow IS mid Sep, ready for first harvest mid Nov, pest in ribs , otherwise healthy. After Dec spraying pests disappeared. Still going past frost. Pretty yellow ribs in salads. |
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Tansy
| 2 | 40cm | 30cm x 50cm | vigorous, self seeding, invasive |
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Thyme
| 1 | 30cm | 30cm x 40cm | took a knock from hard frosts, flowering Nov |
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Tomato (Cherry)
Sweetie
| 6 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | DET!!! , ST 19/7 3/5g, tp early oct, knee high mid Nov, First Red fruit by Dec. Prolific, happy, firm very sweet bright red fruit. Daily picking. Train well. Kept producing until frost |
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Tomato (Regular)
Principe Borghese DET
| 3 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | DET!!! ST 19/7 GG DET 4/5 G, 2 tp, one plant lost from disease. Excellent yield. Perfect tomatoes for drying. Good firn small fruit with pointed tip. |
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Tomato (Regular)
Purple Calabash
| 3 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | INDET!!! ST 19/7 GG 5/5g, pretty, ribbed tomato, attacked by worm? Diligent care resulted in good yiled. Delicious complex flavour. Pretty sliced and used in salad. Not as vigorous as other indet varieties. |
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Tomato (Regular)
Tigerella
| 2 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | INDET!!! ST 19/7 LS 5/5g, first bigger tom to produce fruit, rampant vine, tangy taste. Prolific fruit. Lovely fresh or cooked. Small striped fruit ripe when stripes are yellow. First to succumb to disease and frost. |
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Tomato (Regular)
Marmande
| 2 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | INDET!!! ST 19/7 GG DET 5/5g, blossom end rot in Dec, crowded in pepper bed with giant asparagus, fantastic tomato. Def grow again. Train well. |
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Tomato (Regular)
| 2 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | INDET!!! Amish Salad LS 5/5g,, INDET!!! Amish Paste GG 3/5g, New seeds sown ST late Sep Green Zebra (indet) delicious ripe when striped pale gr, Floridade (det) in pots, also seedlingsin pots Oxheart (indet), Pots not happy - fusilium wilt?, Blossom end rot ... watered with a little milk. After all other tom died back pots kept going |
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Tomato (Regular)
Brandywine OTV
| 3 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | INDET!!! ST 19/7 GG 3/5 g, large green fruit by early JAn, needs high stake 2m / trellis, full flavoured, large boat shaped, susceptible to disease, fruit worth it. Needs to be well trained. |
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Tomato (Regular)
Giant Belgium
| 3 | 50cm | 45cm x 60cm | INDET!!! ST 19/7 LS 4/5 g, large green fruit by early Jan, enormous tomatoes up to 500g each. Tasty Needs very strong staking. Produced until frost. |
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Tree (Large)
| 1 | 4.00m | 4.00m x 4.00m | |
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Turnip
| 63 | 20cm | 15cm x 30cm | Harvesting thinnings Jul and Aug. Little growth in winter. Overcrowded and attacked by bagrada bug. lost harvest, planted too late in season? |
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