Help with varieties please..

I am looking for suitable veg for a new plot, 12ft x 12ft. (is currently jungle but I can lean on the husband & sons...) I am having potatoes in containers, plus some or all of the following-
onions
carrots
lettuce
parnsips
and tomatoes inside on the windowsills.
Live high and exposed, bad winters and cold winds. Want charlotte or salad-type potatoes if poss. Cant grow early anythings. Any suggestions as to what varieties will suit, please throw them at me

 

I would definitely settle for cherry tomatoes as they will be on the windowsill.

Depending on the size of your window of course, the smallest I have tried is Totem and they were fairly large for a cherry tomato but very small plants reaching only just over a foot high. They also cropped earlier than other types and kept going long after the others in this years rotten weather.

Balcony Red, and Balcony Yellow have also been good neat little plants although in my case I grew them in hanging baskets in the greenhouse.

 

Duke of York is a nice waxy potato that you can plant fairly early.

 

British Queen, Golden Wonder and Navan varieties of potatoes seem to do well in the scottish climate. Gladiator and Javelin parsnips should flourish both being frost and abuse tolerant. Try Ulyses carrots and late sown early nantes, Onions try Ailsa Craig!

Hope this helps :D

 

I always grow pink fir apple potatoes, better than any of the French or newer varieties for salads I find.

Presume they will be OK in Scotland, as a main crop variety.

 

ok,many thanks, got all that writ down ! sorry I took so long to get back to you, been busy. The windows are big. 7ft by 5ft, and I have one north facing and 2 south facing. I tried tomatoes for the first time ever last summer and they were so gorgeous I want to do a lot more. I was interested in russian or artic varieties, does anybody have any experience of them? But I will try these totem as well, they sound tidy & manageable,

 

Living in London with a south facing allotment, I try mediterranean varieties there and more northern varieties in my north facing garden, it gets muddled sometimes? :(

 

Hi Ming,
Last year I tried heritage tomato Citron Russe, a bright yellow plum tomato that looked just like bunches of lemons hanging on the plant and made fabulous chutney.

I also planted Calabash Poupre, an old French variety of purple beefsteak. this produced only a few enormous and extremely wierd looking deep purple tomatoes that tasted heavenly.
Also in the packets were Tomate des Andes and Jaune de Belgique.

The seeds of these were sent to me by friends who collected seed from tomatoes bought at French markets.

I still have a few seeds of each and have just spent half an hour trying to find them, I have obviously put them somewhere 'safe'. If I do come across them I will send them to you.

 

I do like the sound of unusual tomatoes...I think I had moneymaker, gardeners delight, and something else I forget, all indoors and all were fantastic. I won't waste time putting them outside as the wind will just wreck them. I can't grow any tall plants here, they get ruined. The growing season here is 1st june onwards , hence wanting to try the russians.