"miniature vegetables"

[size=large]If you grow vegetables closely and you get therefore smaller fruits, will they taste similar to those growing in full space?[/size]

 

I would say on many harvestables, younger vegetables will have a far better flavour, in particular leaf and root vegetables, however certain vegetables can suffer if overcrowded.

I certainly agree with JWK that you can cram things closer together than seed packets suggest

 

Thats a good way, you get to eat the thinnings as lovely tender miniatures & still get a maincrop

Just use the parafin geezer when you are thinning the carrots.

 

I agree, what you are harvesting is baby veg, which you have to pay an arm and a leg for in the supermarket.

 

Is this for the carrot root fly?

 

No, i'm just a pyromaniac & I like parafin with its pinky oily colour. Its a marvelous accelerant:inautumnleaves:



Only joshing there, yes, it disguises the smell of damaged carrot foliage which the carrot root fly homes in on.

Had no damage last season, for the first time ever. Partly, I suspect, because the plot is raised(although they could have flied in from one side:DOH