Chris and Steve's Weblog - City Chickens » Nasturtions http://www.citychickens.co.uk The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:31:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Growing Nasturtions in The Salad Bed http://www.citychickens.co.uk/2008/02/08/growing-nasturtions-in-the-salad-bed/ http://www.citychickens.co.uk/2008/02/08/growing-nasturtions-in-the-salad-bed/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:26:35 +0000 Chris http://citychickens.co.uk/2008/02/08/nasturtion/ Last year I grew Nasturtions along the edges of the salad bed. I sowed them directly into the ground and was overwhelmed by how vigorously they eventually grew. Unfortunately they stifled the smaller plants and moved over to cover the corn bed too. As the corn was high they survived and may even have benefitted from the moisture that was not lost because the Nasturtions shaded the ground between the corn plants. I saved loads of seed at the end of the season. This year I want to be a bit more in control and so have sown a tray indoors. I shall probably sow some seeds over in the hedge on plot 18 as it is all brambles and hawthorne at present not to mention a fair bit of rubble and bricks so I hope that they will mask it a little.

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Sow directly March-May, flowers June-September. Nasturtions flower abundantly in poor soil and transform hot, dry places into a blaze of colour. Flowers are edible, and ideal for use in salads.

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