What ever happened to ....

[nick the grief]

Mini Veg? a few years ago all the seed companies used to promote certain varieties as Mini veg - ideal for close spacing ... they don't seem to do that anymore or at least none of the seed catalogs I've seen . do they think we've all got huge gardens again now ?

Apart from Little gem lettuce and Idol Cauli's I can't remember the others ... I was thinking of trying a few in big pots.

[NannyGreen]

I grow Minicole cabbages, not to save space but because I can't manage a whole cabbage on my own and cabbage does not freeze well. Last year supplies were all over the place but this year no problem. Any good? Do you grow cabbage?

[Penellype]

If you want a small iceberg-type lettuce I can recommend Warpath. Valmaine (green) and Relic (red) are narrow, upright lettuces which take up little space.

[Jungle Jane]

Mini cucumbers are usually good,I tried climbing courgette in two pots & in the ground last year & I’ll never grow that again,tiny courgettes too small to harvest,I thought that’ll save space if they grow up a cane but it was a waste of space. Maybe the mini veg thing was at the same time as the square foot gardening fashion,don’t hear much about that anymore.

[nick the grief]

... Maybe the mini veg thing was at the same time as the square foot gardening fashion,don’t hear much about that anymore.

I think square foot gardening is still going strong but it just seemed to me it was a missed oppourtunity. SOme folks down want an allotemnt or have a big enough garden to have a veg plot and Mrs G doent't like the idea of veg in the flower borders. SO I'm going to sort the bit behing the greenhouses out for a standing ground for my chrysanths and have a few big pots with some veg in so If she decided she wants so we have veg growing to hand as well as the allotment.

I'd forgotten about Minicole - yes I've grown that before wish I'd kept my old seed catalogs now