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Diana · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:04 am Post subject: Good varieties

Thought I'd start a thread for varieties of fruit and veg people have had success with at our sunny latitude (will start a different thread of ones not to bother with).

Please add any varieties you have tried and have done well.
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Diana · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:16 am Post subject:

Broad Bean - Masterpiece green longpod. Consistent long pods with 5-7 green shelled beans. Lovely and sweet too, even when older.

Winter squash/pumpkin - Potimarron and Yurki Kuri. Both small nutty varieties. Each plant sets multiple fruits that store really well. As they're small you can use them all up at once without having pumpkin with every meal (or filling the freezer with a veg that sores perfectly well on a window sill).

Cucumber - Petita. Produces an abundance of small (4-6") fruits, very early (started cropping mine early June in polytunnel). Very sweet, few male flowers, not a mass of leaves and only a few enormous fruit like some varieties. Just big enough to eat all at once (so you don't have half a cue festering forgotton in the fridge, and nor do you have cold cue in your salad/sandwiches etc).

Potato - Kestrel. Always does well, tastes good and stores really well.
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flingdizz · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:45 am Post subject:

Garlic- really garlicky scottish garlic (not the pategonian variety)

Beetroot- Boltardy

Diana · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

Aubergine - Ping Tung. Possibly other long thin Japanese varieties too. It's much smaller than the big purple things, but will crop fine in a shorter season. Definately one for the greenhouse though.
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flingdizz · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject:

Ooo I might try that next year- I love aubergine. Does it taste similar to the italian varieties?

Diana · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:47 pm Post subject:

Yep. Slightly nutty (i.e. good flavour).

Does well here as it's traditionally an early cropper at lower temperatures (that'll be a late Scottish summer then

).

I think there are 2 types, the standard and the long, or that might just be 2 seed companies trying to be different.
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