tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20010012.post-1138204474791226342006-01-25T15:26:00.001Z2006-01-27T17:41:04.130Z<span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"><strong>GROW TO SHOW</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#006600;"></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Newcastle Allotment and Garden Show</span> <span style="font-size:100%;">receives an increasing number of entries each year into the unusual vegetables category.</span></span><br /><br />If you are interested in this section, or in growing a few unusual vegetables just for pleasure, I recommend Simon Hickmott's excellent book, straight-forwardly called <span style="font-size:130%;">"Growing Unusual Vegetables"</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (£15.00 from Eco-logic books)</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br />As an introduction to unusual and less-usual vegetables, we can start with the green plants which grow well in this UK but have fallen out of fashion or favour, probably because of the ease with which we can now obtain a variety of products from overseas. Think of the air-mils and pollution you could save by just growing a few unusual veggies yourself.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20010012-113820447479122634?l=allotmentblog.blogspot.com'/></div>Scarecrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363259377377408714noreply@blogger.com0