..to plant GIANT vegetables!
I occasionally plant giant vegetable seeds just for fun. As well as the looks of incredulity you get when you produce a 5 pound onion, a 3 foot carrot or runner beans several feet in length, they make good eating if you haven't fed them on chemical fertilisers.
In the past I've grown giant carrots. Basically, you ram a pole about 30 inches into the ground. Then you wind it round and round, gradually leaning the pole outwards, until you have a hole the shape of an enormous ice cream cone. Fill the hole with fine seed compost and plant a few Saint Valery carrot seeds on the top. As they grow, pull out the weaker plants until you are left with just one carrot per hole which will, hopefully, plummet down to the bottom of the artificial cone. In around 7 months or so you will be the proud owner of an unbelievably large carrot!
This year I intend to grow a few giant onions. I shall plant Robinsons Mammoth Onion variety into a seed tray in the conservatory. This gives the seeds an extra 3 months growing time. Then I shall transplant them into individual pots before planting outside in April.
Anyway, I know this isn't the most interesting topic in the World.
But I bet you're impressed at the carrot growing technique!
Englishman.