Tree onions, also known as Egyptian onions, Walking onions, Topsetting onions etc (Allium × proliferum, formerly Allium cepa var proliferum) are a very...
Sabtu, 30 April 2016
A few years ago we got some perennial leeks online. Like all plants you get online it is difficult to know if it will survive being posted or survive...
Jumat, 29 April 2016
I grow mostly perennial vegetables at the moment. They have a lot of benefits when compared to annuals as well as some negatives. I also grow...
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I am not all that fond of eating broad beans. I think I have eaten them maybe 2 or 3 times in my life and have never particularly liked them. I have, however, grown broad beans and saved their seeds many times.
Why grow Broad Beans (Vicia faba)
I used to grow broad beans as green manure or mulch. As a green manure they are fantastic, they protect the soil, they prevent winter weeds from getting a start, the roots incorporate nitrogen into the soil, the tops add a lot of carbon rich organic matter, and they grow over the cooler months when little else needs the space, they are easy to chop/kill and you can plant seedlings directly into the dead patch. As a mulch they do ok, being high in nitrogen it tends to break down a bit too fast unless you use a very thick layer, but it certainly has its uses in the vegetable garden. The variety I am growing now, I first purchased seeds before my first child was born, he "helped" me to plant and save broad bean seeds a few times.
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 Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles...  I have never met a person who dislikes Skirret (Sium sisarum) and I dont expect this to change. Very few people in Australia grow skirret or have...
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