Month: May 2014

  • Mustard greens, fermented and more

    I wish I’d got to know mustard greens (and reds and goldens) much earlier in my growing adventure. They are such a tasty, versatile and good-hearted vegetable. And some of the varieties are great green manures, ground cover and biofumigants. Here at Legge Towers we sow them in mid to late summer so that we…

  • Hanging baskets from recycled poultry feeders

    Sometimes the most obvious solutions are at my feet. Which is ironic, as I was after a high-level solution. We’ve grown tomatoes in the Big Polytunnel for a few years now. They take up quite a lot of bed space and we felt we could use the bed space more productively. But we like tomatoes…