{"id":98836,"date":"2018-09-30T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-five-minute-fix-for-growing-tastier-healthier-veg\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T06:04:00","slug":"a-five-minute-fix-for-growing-tastier-healthier-veg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-five-minute-fix-for-growing-tastier-healthier-veg\/","title":{"rendered":"A five-minute fix for growing tastier, healthier veg"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSprinkle Epsom salts on to your soil to enhance the health and flavour of your winter cropsI may never learn to love the dark days of winter, but the wonderful thing about horticulture is that there is always a silver lining, particularly if you are a veg grower. Even as many plants around us slide into dormancy, there is a range of winter veg that can be planted now and which will look after itself for months at a time. Not only are these arguably the easiest of all seasonal crops to grow, but with a simple five-minute trick of mine you could also make them measurably tastier and more nutritious than most of what you can buy in the shops.Autumn-planting onion and shallot sets are in stores everywhere right now and, once planted according to packet instructions in a well-tended bed, should require almost zero intervention from you until harvest. The same deal applies to garlic and a little known fourth member of the family, the echalote grise, also called (rather confusingly) the French grey shallot. Although neither French nor a shallot, this is in my opinion the finest flavoured of all the onion family. Spring onions can, likewise, be sown now from seed for harvesting from late winter to early spring. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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