Great for planting out now & filling garden beds & borders.
Hope everyone is enjoying this weather! Just dropping a wee email to show a selection of plants I have available now that are great for getting those beds & borders filled up with some interesting plants.
Perennial Vegetables
If you missed out on the Caucasian Spinach Vine crowns I sold out of quickly in early spring, I've got some very robust multi-sown 2L pots of them ready to go now. Very hardy scrambling vine with tasty leaves that can be used in cooking just like normal spinach. This is a great one for any shady areas of the garden, woodland edges & under trees. I find it unbothered by slugs as well.
Buy Caucasian Spinach Vine here...
Sea Kale. A native plant to Scotland, its extremely hardy, tolerates maritime conditions & very pest resistant. Eaten just like you would normal kale. Grown from native seed and are 2nd year plants.
Scot's Lovage. Another plant native to Caithness. Very hardy & tolerant of maritime conditions. Very attractive plant with edible leaves that can be used as a celery substitute. Great potherb for adding to soups & stews for flavour.
Everlasting Onions. These onions never flower, just divide and divide over again producing more onions! They are very similar to spring onions except you never need to sow seed and they are available to eat all year round. The plant itself never grows taller than about 45-60cm but, the clump gets wider every season as they divide & you harvest them by pulling the onions from the outside of the clump. Each onion has a dry, brown papery layer that is easily peeled off to give you a perfect little spring onion that is sweet & crunchy! Very tasty wee onions.
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Brighteyes (Reichardia picroides). If I could choose to grow only two salad crops, it would be Reichardia & miner's lettuce! A mediterranean perennial plant that does very well here. Its kind of rare in that its not often seen for sale here & it does not produce a lot of seed so seeds can be hard to find as well. Produces lots of lush leaves for salad. I use them a lot on sandwiches & in tacos and falafel! It goes on to produce yellow flowers that look exactly like dandelions but, even whilst flowering, the leaves stay sweet & tasty. Comes back reliably every year for me. These are multi-sown (meaning several plants per pot) in 2L pots ready to plant out now.
Mashua. One of my favourite plants. This is variety 'Ken Aslet' that is less dependant on photoperiod for flowering & tuber development meaning that this far north, this mashua variety will flower profusely right through summer and produce lots of tubers earlier. The entire plant is edible. A tuber crop from the Andes & related to nasturtiums. Its a climber & its tubers can stay in the ground through winter where the vines will emerge once again in spring. Flowers are sweet with a spicy afternote which are colourful morsels for summer salads. Very ornamental as well. Does well in almost every position, full sun & even in shady areas of the garden.
More items available now ready for planting out!
I also have a range of fruit and other plants & trees available on the Square site.