Vegetables
Vegetables & Herbs
Garden fresh herbs and vegetables are a treat and growing them is not all that tricky. The rewards are certainly worth all the digging, watering and weeding that goes into them. Plus you get the bragging rights when you bring in the first red, juicy tomato.
Oakridge grows a wide variety of tomatoes, peppers, cukes, and all manner of other veggies including the prickly artichoke. Herbs are also a hot item these days as more and more people discover the flavour boost fresh herbs give their cooking.
The taste of homegrown vegetables, picked fresh from the garden, is so superior to store-bought we often can’t resist the notion of growing our own.
The taste of homegrown vegetables, picked fresh from the garden, is so superior to store-bought we often can’t resist the notion of growing our own. The only mistake enthusiasts make is they grow far more than their family, friends, and relatives can consume because they didn’t anticipate the incredible yield.
Decide what you want to grow and sketch it out on graph paper. Group the vegetable crops according to height to prevent one shading another. Plan to put the small-growing, quick-maturing ones together as well. Remember, some vegetables really like to sprawl like pumpkins and squash. In a modest suburban backyard, are these really practical? And how many recipes do you have for so much Zucchini?