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This year’s new (to me) things to grow:

A melon that’s a cucumber (Carosello)
A cucumber tasting of melon (Tortarello)
Heirloom beans (Madeira Maroon, Bonne Bouche, Greasy, Yin Yang, Jacob’s cattle)
Heirloom melon (Cantalun)
A samphire-like from Japan (Okahijiki)
Vegetable spaghetti
Chinese celery (kintsai)
Chinese kale (kailaan)
Chopsuey greens (shungiku)
Garlic bulbs/bulbils with chive like leaves (Rocambole)

Will you be growing anything that’s new to you?

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JimmyB (he/him)
Great question! This year I will be growing some Celeriac that actuall develops a proper bulb. That will be new to me.

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Broadfork
They need regular watering and leaf removal helps bulb growth but I have a love/hate relationship with celeriac too. 🙃

Any celeriac growing tips gratefully accepted.
JimmyB (he/him)
yes David told me last year to scarify them and I did… but maybe not enough? And water in our veg garden can be a bit hot and miss it’s true. We didn’t get lots of rain last summer so I rely on good mulch mostly but I suspect that’s not enough… will@keep trying though. Have a similar issue with Florence fennel 😀
Nervensäge 💐
Plant it on a little hill and remove the soil slowly to half of the bulb.
At the end only half of the bulb is in the soil like here:
https://friendica-leipzig.de/photo/media/411580
As celeriac needs a lot of water, place a watering ring around each little hill to keep the water inside (and extra fertilizer as well).
JimmyB (he/him)
OK - and thank you! That may be trickier to achieve than my work-travel regime allows but I will see what I can do. It's so frustrating to grow really healthy plants - with no bulb! Two years in a row now.
Chitchat 🎶🎻
I've just planted some seeds to have a go at growing Darjeeling tea, and have some flax seeds for later on

Do you try new varieties every year? I'm moving everything I can to heritage varieties for a bit of future-proofing

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JimmyB (he/him)
Oooh - there you go! I'd like to grow tea! Hate the stuff myself, but the missus loves it. No idea if it's possible in my climate - but I'd like to try!

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Chitchat 🎶🎻
looks like it! https://thejerseyteacompany.com/
It was finding a Scottish tea growers website that led me to think of trying it. There's tea growers in Perthshire, Mull of Kintyre, Skye, Orkney. Hoping it will be possible in my wee patch! You can also get the plants as shrubs. Why not give it a try?

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JimmyB (he/him)
As I live in #Jersey, seems like I should! I had forgotten about this lot... I'll give it a go.

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Pollinators
@Broadfork. New things for our 2025 gardening season include wild rocket (Sylvetta Arugula), rocket (Arugala Arugala), nasturtium, Ethiopian Eggplant (Solanum Aethiopicum). We are hoping the rocket self sows enthusiastically. #gardening, #allotment, #minnesota.
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JimmyB (he/him)
If your rocket is like mine, as long as you let some go to seed, you'll never need to plant it again. It's a lovely edible flower and seed pod too of course.

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Pollinators
@Broadfork. We hope so. The rocket greens season starts early and ends late in the shared reality of the Mastodon gardening universe. #growyourown.
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JimmyB (he/him)
I threw some rocket seed into a big potato sach which I'd had a tomato plant, in at the back end of the season - and it's not cropping nicely! There aren't so many edibles for me, which are as satisfyingly reliable as that.

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