What’s Growing

Perennial vegetables and unusual edibles we are growing…

Perennial Vegetable Growing including perennial Kales and Collards, roots and tubers and an array or edible perennials and alliums here are a few of our favourite pics

Poireau Perpetuel — Poireau Perpetual, a wonderful perennial leek

Egloskerry perennial kale

Carole Wellwood perennial kale

Taunton Deane kale — A four year old Taunton Deane perennial kale plant approaching 3m wide

Purple Tree Collard — A majestic Purple Tree Collard approaching 2m tall

Purple Tree Collards rooting in pots in the polytunnel

Thousand Headed perennial kale — A perennial kale thought to be Thousand Headed kale

Hablitzia Tamnoides leaves — Freshly harvested Hablitzia leaves in mid May

Hablitzia Tamnoides — Four year old Hablitzia Tamnoides plants (Caucasian perennial Spinach)

Hablitzia Tamnoides — Hablitzia Tamnoides plant in full growth

Hablitzia Tamnoides — Hablitzia Tamnoides climbing up bean netting

Hablitzia Tamnoides leaves — Deep green tasty leaves of Hablitzia Tamnoides

Skirret three year old plants — Harvested in March 2017, after three years, skirret with some good eating roots.

Skirret plant with offsets — Mature Skirret plant with offsets (Sium Sisarum)

Skirret harvest — A nice collection of freshly lifted three year old skirret plants.

Yard long beans in polytunnel — Yard long beans living up to their name in the polytunnel

Red and white skinned Yacon varieties

Ravelo Lisa and Colombian Long Red Ulluco — Dazzling colours of Colombian Long Red and Ravelo Lisa Ulluco tubers

Yacon flower — Dazzling yellow flower from one of our Yacon plants

Flowering polyculture — Perennial cabbage and flowering plants

Ulluco planting in May — Julien plants out different varieties of Ulluco tubers in early May

Ulluco sprouted plants — Healthy Ulluco ready to go in the ground

Ulluco plants ready to be transplanted — Ulluco sprouted in trays ready to be planted out in early May

Ulluco in the mist — A misty Dartmoor morning as the sun comes up over one of our Ulluco patches

Vibrant Ulluco leaves — By September, the Ulluco have formed a carpet of beautiful succulent leaves

A dense carpet of Ulluco leaves

Taunton Deane perennial Kale — 1 year old Taunton Deane perennial kale plants

Sweet Potato harvest — A good harvest of sweet potatoes

Sweet potato vines — Sweet potato plants are left to trail across the polytunnel

Shishigitani squash

Veg patch polyculture early morning — Oca, Perennial 9 Star Broccoli and mixed polyculture beds

Oca tuber trial beds — Trial Oca beds for the Guild of Oca Breeders

Oca beds late summer — Oca plants flourishing in the late summer sun

Oca tuber trials for the guild of Oca Breeders — Just some of the trial varieties in 2015 for the Guild of Oca Breeders

Vibrant green growth of a Hablitzia plant in early spring

Hablitzia plants — Three year old Hablitzia plants heading skywards

Hablitzia Tamnoides — Mandy nurturing one of her Hablitzia ‘babies’

Hablitzia plants in pots — Hablitzia Tamnoides seedlings

Tender and tasty leaves of Hablitzia

Apios Americana flower — Beautiful scented flowers of Apios Americana ( Hopniss or Ground nut)

Apios Americana vine — A young Apios Americana (Hopniss) plant

Apios Americana — Apios Americana (Hopniss) grown in bottomless pots

The maturing roots of a two year old skirret plant

Two year old skirret root crowns — Skirret plants have produced good eating roots

Skirret flowering in the field — One of our many skirret patches in the summer months

Sea Kale flowering — The florets emerging on one of our sea kale plants

Ten varieties of Ulluco — Ten varieties of our harvested Ulluco

Yellow, Pica de Pulga, Ravelo Lisa (green) and Purple Ulluco tubers. — Some full size Ulluco tubers

Bright green Ulluco tubers — Ravelo Lisa Ulluco, an heirloom green variety

Yellow, Ravelo Lisa, purple and Pica de Pulga Ulluco tubers against the dark earth — Colourful Ulluco

Freshly harvested Ulluco, Yellow, Pica de Pulga, Ravelo Lisa and purple varieties. — Freshly harvested Ulluco

Brightly coloured Ulluco tubers — The most beautiful Ulluco tubers 2015 harvest

Hablitzia Tamnoides perennial climbing spinach — Hablitzia Tamnoides – vivid green heart shaped leaves

Some baked potato size Yacon tubers freshly lifted

Yacon tubers — Red skinned Yacon variety with sweet and crunchy tubers

A Yacon propagule — A Yacon propagule from one of our red skinned varieties.

The exquisite and dazzling colour of purple Ulluco tubers

Freshly harvested red oca tubers — Vivid red Oca tubers from our winter 2016 main crop

Amazing edible Chinese Artichoke tubers against the dark earth — Chinese Artichoke tubers (Stachys Affinis) against the dark earth

Hablitzia Tamnoides perennial climbing spinach — Hablitzia Tamnoides or Caucasian Spinach

Hablitzia Tamnoides perennial spinach — Hablitzia Tamnoides or Caucasian Spinach flowering

Daubenton's kale, variegated variety — Beautiful variegated variety of Daubenton’s perennial kale ‘Panache’

Spigariello heirloom greens — Spigariello

Babington's Leeks — Babington perennial Leeks

Perennial Taunton Deane Kale — Taunton Deane perennial Kale

Perennial Chinese Artichoke tubers — Prolific nutty tubers of Chinese Artichoke (Stachys Affinis)

Potato onions — Heirloom Potato onions

Crown Prince, Stripey Butternut and Acorn Squash harvest — Bumper Winter Squash

Garlic drying in the sun — Garlic Drying in the Sun

Tromboncino squash growing in the polytunnel — Whopping Tromboncino Squash like Cavemen’s Clubs

Perennial 9 Star Broccoli — Perennial Nine Star Broccoli

Perennial Chinese Artichoke leaves — The Leaves of Chinese Artichokes, part of the Mint Family

Tuberous Chervil — Tuberous Chervil, lovely nutty tubers that store well

Perennial Oca, Ulluco, Chinese Artichoke Tubers — Bumper harvest of Andean Tubers and Chinese Artichokes

beautiful blue Borage flowers — Stunning sky Blue Borage Flowers

Fizz kale — Fizz Kale, very attractive frilly leaves

Perennial Peruvian Oca tubers — Oca Plants ( Oxalis Tuberosa)

Scorzonera — Scorzonera a tasty and sweet root vegetable

Sutherland Kale

Salad Burnet

Padron Peppers — Padron Pepper, 1 in 10 are super hot!

Tromboncino Squash — The Triffid like flower of a Tromboncino Squash

A green tomatillo growing in the polytunnel — Tomatillo

Malope Trifida Edible Flower — Malope Triffida, exquisite edible flower

Perennial Ulluco Tubers — The succulent leaves of Ulluco

Yard Long Beans — Yard Long Beans – One bean make a meal

Giant Tree Spinach Chenopodium Giganteum — Giant Tree Spinach

Frilly petit posies — Frilly Petit Posies

Perennial Cardoon plants with purple thistle flowers — Flowering Cardoon Plant

Mexican Fat Babies — Achocha ‘Fat baby’

Perennial Skirret Sium Sisarum — Baby Skirret roots from a 1 year old plant

Cucamelon growing in the polytunnel — Melothria Scabra growing in the polytunnel (can be grown as a perennial)

Oca, Ulluco, Chinese Artichoke, Jerusalem Artichoke

The fleshy top growth of Ulluco tubers which is also edible and can be cooked like spinach — The fleshy top growth of Ulluco tubers

Yacon plants — Welcoming broad leaves of Yacon plants in summer

Yellow Yacon flower — Vivid yellow Yacon flower which appear late in the season

Egyptian walking onions — Walking Onions or tree onions

Kohlrabi super schmelz — Super schmelz kohlrabi

Potato onions beginning to multiply

Perennial kale cuttings — Three types of perennial kales being propagated in the polytunnel

Perennial 9 Star Broccoli

Ulluco harvest 2016 — The exquisite colours of ten Ulluco varieties side by side

Ulluco tubers — Colombian Long Red, White spotted & Ravelo Lisa Ulluco

Skirret flowering — Late summer and the skirrets are in full bloom

Skirret plants in raised beds — Skirrets grown from seed about 18 months old

Ulluco in June — Ulluco tuffets! A month or so after planting

Spotted White Ulluco — Spotted White Ulluco forms tubers with beautiful patterning

Spotted white Ulluco variety — Spotted white Ulluco tubers

Ulluco slices — Sliced Ulluco

Chinese Artichokes — Chinese Artichokes (Stachys Affinis)