Vegetable Gardening
Episode: # 28 08/12/07
Presenter: Melissa King
How would you like to enjoy fresh summer salad and char grilled vegetables straight from your backyard? Now is a great time to get excited about the kitchen garden. Creating a vegetable garden is an investment in your taste buds and a healthier lifestyle. When you grow your own you are not just getting improved flavour and freshness but garden picked produce is also jam packed with nutrition.
You can grow vegetables in a dedicated patch, or if you are lacking space, you can pop a few in amongst your flowers. Many vegetables are often just as decorative. If you like your food hot then Chillies are a good choice. The fruit is really wonderful and ornamental and if you are a city gardener they are absolutely fantastic in pots.
If you love the numbing effects of a good chilli dish, then El Toro Bull Horn will certainly set your taste buds alight. Nothing is better than home grown vine ripened tomatoes, if you want serious taste the Gurus recommend Picolo Roma which is a miniature Roma tomato which is tops for flavour.
Abruzzi Bruschetta is another favourite which is hard to beat; it has large Beefsteak-type fruit. In other words it has a meaty texture and a rich flavour. As the name suggests it is a great one for Italian worthy Bruschetta.
A gourmet edition to the stir fry is the Brocolette, it is a cross between Chinese kale and Broccoli, so it ahs a multi stemmed habit. It is fantastic tossed straight in the pan and it can be planted year round.
The Baby Butter lettuce has sweet and tender leaves which are great to harvest leaf by leaf for side salads or cut the whole head. Redback spring onions make a lovely decorative garnish.
It is important to know how your food is grown. So when it comes to fertilising it is best to use an organically based fertiliser like Powerfeed. It is incredibly nutritious but it is also boosted with Potassium, Nitrogen and a little bit of Phosphorus so it makes plants very happy. Aswell as that it contains concentrated liquid compost so it simultaneously conditions the soil.
Because it is a liquid Powerfeed is immediately available to the plants and you can apply it from the time the plants are seedlings through to picking faze. When your plants a start to develop fruit it means they are working extra hard. Therefore, you should apply the Powerfeed at a higher rate toward the end of the season.
Featured Plants:
Garden Gurus Seedlings
Featured Product:
Seasol Powerfeed
Presenter: Melissa King
How would you like to enjoy fresh summer salad and char grilled vegetables straight from your backyard? Now is a great time to get excited about the kitchen garden. Creating a vegetable garden is an investment in your taste buds and a healthier lifestyle. When you grow your own you are not just getting improved flavour and freshness but garden picked produce is also jam packed with nutrition.
You can grow vegetables in a dedicated patch, or if you are lacking space, you can pop a few in amongst your flowers. Many vegetables are often just as decorative. If you like your food hot then Chillies are a good choice. The fruit is really wonderful and ornamental and if you are a city gardener they are absolutely fantastic in pots.
If you love the numbing effects of a good chilli dish, then El Toro Bull Horn will certainly set your taste buds alight. Nothing is better than home grown vine ripened tomatoes, if you want serious taste the Gurus recommend Picolo Roma which is a miniature Roma tomato which is tops for flavour.
Abruzzi Bruschetta is another favourite which is hard to beat; it has large Beefsteak-type fruit. In other words it has a meaty texture and a rich flavour. As the name suggests it is a great one for Italian worthy Bruschetta.
A gourmet edition to the stir fry is the Brocolette, it is a cross between Chinese kale and Broccoli, so it ahs a multi stemmed habit. It is fantastic tossed straight in the pan and it can be planted year round.
The Baby Butter lettuce has sweet and tender leaves which are great to harvest leaf by leaf for side salads or cut the whole head. Redback spring onions make a lovely decorative garnish.
It is important to know how your food is grown. So when it comes to fertilising it is best to use an organically based fertiliser like Powerfeed. It is incredibly nutritious but it is also boosted with Potassium, Nitrogen and a little bit of Phosphorus so it makes plants very happy. Aswell as that it contains concentrated liquid compost so it simultaneously conditions the soil.
Because it is a liquid Powerfeed is immediately available to the plants and you can apply it from the time the plants are seedlings through to picking faze. When your plants a start to develop fruit it means they are working extra hard. Therefore, you should apply the Powerfeed at a higher rate toward the end of the season.
Featured Plants:
Garden Gurus Seedlings
Featured Product:
Seasol Powerfeed
- Based on fish fertiliser and fortified with essential nutrients such as nitrogen, potassium and some phosphorus.
- Rich source of amino acids, proteins, good bacteria and vitamins
- Naturally occurring humic acids act as a liquid compost
- 50ml of Powerfeed in 9 litres of water is the same as using 10kg of gypsum.
- Turns sticky clay soils into friable soils
- Saves you water
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