Check out the list of 12 Edibles You Can Grow in Water with ease! You don’t need a garden to grow these–A small windowsill, balcony, or tabletop is sufficient to have a fresh supply right at your fingertips!
21.08.2023 - 11:57 / theunconventionalgardener.com / Emma Doughty
I’ve mentioned the TomTato and the Egg & Chips plants before – they’re exclusive to T&M, grafted vegetables that grow two crops – potatoes combined either with tomatoes or aubergines. Now opinion is divided as to whether they’re genius space savers or a novelty that won’t give you your money’s worth on either crop. But if you’d like the opportunity to decide for yourself then they’re on offer today – you can buy a pair of plants (one of each variety) for just £4.99.
That offer is valid TODAY ONLY, so if you want to take advantage of it then you only have until midnight.
Whilst you’re there, it turns out that you can add 10 fuchsia berries – fuchsia plants with edible fruit – to your order for just £2.99. It’s on the same offer page – you just scroll down past the dynamic duo to find it (and other offers). When you add the grafted plants and the fuchsia berries to your basket you’ll be charged £7.98 (+P&P) for 12 plants that you can’t find anywhere else. (It works, I’ve just tried it.)
“We have exclusively bought together 2 of our own hand-grafted, dual cropping vegetable plants for you to enjoy at this special price. There’s no genetic modification – it’s an all-natural, safe process. Grow them indoors or outdoors, in a patio pot, on your allotment or on the vegetable patch.
TomTato® – Harvest both tomatoes AND potatoes from this unique plant From just one plant you will harvest more than 500 sweet cherry tomatoes which will beat the best in any supermarket. Plus following feedback from our customers, we now graft it to a different potato to bring you 50% more fresh, tasty spuds at the end of the season.
Egg & Chips® – Aubergines AND potatoes from the same plant Our latest development in dual-cropping vegetable plants. Above
Check out the list of 12 Edibles You Can Grow in Water with ease! You don’t need a garden to grow these–A small windowsill, balcony, or tabletop is sufficient to have a fresh supply right at your fingertips!
Potatoes are one of the most popular vegetables, likely because of their versatility. Not only can you prepare potatoes in a myriad of ways, but there are so many unusual potato varieties to try. From russet to fingerling in hues of red, yellow, white and even purple, there’s a unique potato variety out there you will enjoy. Some unusual potatoes might be considered gourmet potato varieties, while still others are de rigueur, but all of them are delicious. Keep reading to learn about unusual potato varieties and which ones you should grow.
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Just over a week ago I spent a couple of hours at the Eden Project, so I thought I would show you some of the more unusual edible plants I came across while I was there.
My parents are coming to visit today, to ‘see the garden’ (which is probably just a convenient excuse for them to visit). I am a little apprehensive – not least because it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop raining all day. We were going to have a barbecue; we’ve thought better of it.
Over the weekend I got involved in a project that Sustainable Didcot (one of the local Community Action Groups) is putting together under the banner ‘Incredible Edible Didcot‘. The aim of the Incredible Edible movement is to encourage edible planting in public/communal areas, so that local people have access to food they can pick, but also so that people can come together with a sense of community. Sustainable Didcot have a community allotment, with a polytunnel, on the site where I used to have my allotment (our tenures didn’t coincide!), but this will be their first public planting.
I love growing unusual edible plants – not only are they potentially useful and easy to grow (because the pests and diseases they suffer from are not widespread), but they can be beautiful too.
On Friday evening we headed to London (an unusual event in itself) to the Natural History Museum for one of their special After Hours events. The museum stays open late into the evening for guests who have booked tickets to visit the special exhibitions while it’s quieter (although the main bulk of the museum closes as normal). We weren’t booked in for an exhibition – we ended up in the restaurant for a special tasting session of edible insects.
Hurricane Barney battered the garden a bit last week, but it seems to have withstood the weather
Over the last few years there has been increasing interest in unusual edible plants. One of the big advantages in having an allotment or a large garden is that it gives you the space to experiment with new tastes without having to sacrifice any old favourites, but some of the exotic specimens can be very tricky to grow.
Two things came together to prompt this post on edible spring flowers. The first was that we invited Ryan’s parents round for dinner on Mothering Sunday, and I pondered buying some spring flowers for a table decoration that I could later plant out in the garden as additions to my edible flower collection.