SUMMER FLOWER & VEGETABLE PLANTING Grow Your Own – Great Picks Wild Rocket Some people don’t like leafy greens but for me Wild Rocket is a salad staple; as part of the mustard family it has more kick to it than Salad Rocket. Plus it’s easy to grow, even in a container or old timber wine crate filled with compost on a balcony. Sow from March to September in a partly shade position. Give it lots of water to keep leaves from going too bitter. Final spacing: 15 cm (6in) Harvest: eight to ten weeks from sowing. Pick outer leaves and leave the heart for a cut-andcome-again harvest. Beetroot A great addition to a salad or sandwich, every part of a beetroot plant can be used. The leaves are a tasty addition to a salad, and when mature, the larger leaves can be wilted like spinach. Harvest beetroot when they are the size of a golf ball instead of leaving them in the ground to grow on and get tough. I’ve never tried the candy-striped variety Chioggia, an Italian heirloom variety, but it’s on my wish list. Sow from March to September in a partly shaded position. Give it lots of water to keep leaves from going too bitter. Final spacing: 15 cm (6in) Harvest: eight to ten weeks from sowing. Pick outer leaves and leave the heart for a cut-andcome-again harvest.
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