Gardening Tips no. 6: A taste of the Orient

in #blog6 years ago

it's surprising how many oriental vegetables and herbs can be grown successfully in Britain, This group of containers features some of the most popular types.

Time to plant: late spring mid summer

Lemon grass forms a big, impressive plant once it gets going, and is the centrepiece of our group, Its stems have an intense lemon-like flavour that's delicious in Thai cookery. The plant can be harvested all summer long, then when autumn arrives it should be left to go dormant, then brought into a frost-free place over winter. Thai basil has a different flavour to the ltalian types of this popular herb. It's a favourite ingredient in Thai and Vietnamese cooking. Plants are easy to raise from seed each spring. The final two pots contain pak choi and mixed oriental salad leaves. You'll find a good selection of seeds available in mail-order seed catalogues. Their only peculiarity is that they shouldn’t be sown until after midsummer in the UK. This is because they have a tendency to produce flowers instead of leaves if sown when the days are lengthening. Wait untii midsummer -when the days start to shorten again ~ and you won't have any problems.

TIP: Planting in separate pots means you can get ahead on the lemon grass and Thai basil to get the most from them over the summer. Then you can” add the pak choi and oriental salad leaves to the display at. their optimum planting time

references: BBC 2011 gardeners book
image: http://www.visiontimes.com/uploads/2014/09/vegetables-reduce-fever-01-daikon-600x450.jpg

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