Vegetables

Lagenaria siceraria

Plant grows like a vine and requires staking. It has long, green cylindrical fruit that grow around 30-40cm in length. The flavour is mild; similar to summer squash and cucumber. “Lauki” is made from Bottle Gourd - a light tomato based curry with “Koftas.” Bottle Gourd is used frequently in Indian cuisine.

Luffa aegyptiaca

Plant grows like a vine and requires staking. This edible version of Snake Gourd - Casper has fruit that weighs approximately 100-150 grams and has a whitish “ghost” appearance to it. The whole fruit is eaten as a vegetable when young. When mature the soft red tomato like pulp can be used in cooking as a tomato substitute.

Luffa acutangula

Similar to zucchini, pick fruit when young and succulent.

Used in a variety of dishes in Indian, Chinese and South East Asian cuisines, where the fruits soak up the flavours they are being cooked in.

Brassica napus

Attractive blue-green leaves with reddish veining make Red Russian the perfect foil for any salad. Red Russian is also any chefs dream in a stir-fry, or even steamed with other vegetables. The deeply lobed and ruffled leaves are extremely tender to eat and can be picked once the plant is 30cm tall.

Pick the lower, older leaves to ensure the plant continues producing. Leaves should be ready for picking after 7 weeks.

Brassica oleracea var gongylodes

The Kohlrabi bulb tastes like a mild, sweet turnip. Like the turnip, both its bulb-like stem and its greens are edible.

Kohlrabi is best steamed, but can also be added to soups and stews or stir-fried. Smooth, uniform and round with slender petioles.

Brassica oleracea var gongylodes

The flavour of Purple Vienna is best described as a mild sweet cabbage taste, it’s purple skin and crisp white flesh make it “THE” kohl rabi variety. Excellent raw in dips and grated for salads can be cooked and stir fried.

Allium ampeloprasum var Porrum

Try this new variety of leek for an excellent disease tolerant plant. Defiant has a long shank with dark green upright leaves. Close plantings - 15cm between plants with 50cm between rows - will encourage long shank development.

Defiant is a mid-late season maturing variety. Sowing time: July-Sept - Transplanting: Oct-Dec

Allium ampeloprasum var Porrum

A great, well established home garden variety that is very popular.

Sow spring summer for transplanting summer autumn.

Allium ampeloprasum var Porrum

A very early maturing leek that is perfect for growing ‘Baby Leeks’. Long shanks with erect leaves. Normally sown in summer for autumn-winter harvest, but can also be sown in spring.

Melissa officinalis

A lemon scented herb that comes from the same family as mint.  It's used widely in herbal medicine and to flavour tea and food.