I decided to take you on a wee "field trip" with this blog entry and invite you to sneak in with me "undercover", well, into our polytunnel.
The one in the middle is called "rainbow" chard, a member of the beetroot family. It not just comes with a lovely name but it is also beautiful for the eye, just like the rainbow itself! But most important of all it slowly grows all winter long in the tunnel, it is most versatile and of course tasty.
The third above with it's lush green is Mizuna, a salad leaf which I love to nibble away at whenever being around in the tunnel. It is tangy, somewhat crispy, but never to spicy that it would take your breath away. And it loves to self-seed, so its somehow always around with us.
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There are other things not yet mentioned here, like the rusty looking climber on the right picture. It's Chinese Yam, a perennial plant which produces small edible aerial bulbils and long edible tap roots which we have yet to dig out. But this is a story for another post to come!
I hope this excursion has inspired you a little bit to look into your own "undercover" and see what can be done during the dark winter months. Or you might even think about purchasing and erecting your own polytunnel. Well, we never regretted this step, and I can only recommend this one to you!
As always, we are open to any comments, suggestions, whatever comes into your mind after reading this post.