This week at Bathgate Farm – 27 June 2015

Highlights: new picking of baby carrots, beetroot with tops on (two vegetables in one), big range of potatoes varieties.

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Potatoes

    • Waxy – delicious flavour, firm texture: Dutch Cream, Nicola, Norland, Kipfler.
    • Multipurpose- Delaware
    • Floury – fluffy, loose texture, ideal for chips, roasting and mash: King Edward.

Stems and roots:

  • carrots- first pick of the new patch;
  • parsnips;
  • fennel;
  • spring onions;
  • beetroot;
  • Japanese turnip
  • Daikon
  • brown onions.

Greens:

  • Tuscan kale (cavolo nero);
  • Perpetual spinach;
  • broccolini;
  • rocket;
  • cabbages
  • rapini;
  • wild greens – nettles, sorrel, fat hen .

Bitter greens:

  • radicchio,
  • scarole,
  • sugarloaf chicory,
  • frisee,
  • Bitter green and lettuce salad mix;

Asian Greens:

  • Chinese cabbage;
  • coriander.
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