Plants to leave in the ground
Kim Stoddart explains why not meticulously tidying away every crop on your veg patch at the end of the season will reap you multiple marvellous rewards....
Traditional advice dictates that once your crop is ready, or your harvest spent, every remaining plant should be plucked immediately from the ground. It’s all part of this mindset of quick turnaround veg production. One in, one out while making room for the next crop, or later in the season, tidying the veg patch by bedding it down for winter. While it of course makes sense to make the best use of every available growing space, and to have as productive a plot as can be, ripping out every plant at the first available opportunity is actually missing a trick or several.
The truth of the matter is there are actually many plants can be grown on to produce further harvests if you’ll just let them, or which have further uses which are very exciting indeed. As well as saving you time and money, this slower, more considered approach to veg growing also stands to reap extra resilient growing brownie points in the process. Let me explain how:
Turn your brassica perennial
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