Start the new year with the old year’s top garden performers

IF you are like most people, you will have started 2015 with a profusion of positive resolutions on ways to become healthier, exercise more and forsake bad habits.

Why not take the same approach for your garden: assimilate last year’s successes and failures and ensure you have an even prettier and more productive veggie plot in 2015? If you have not done so already, ensure you review last season’s top plot performers before placing seed orders for the coming year.

My own seasonal synopsis is rather lengthy as last year was my first full season as Airfield House & Gardens head food grower, and together with the team we managed to manifest a flourishing food garden to keep our visitors engaged and the onsite restaurant in ample supplies of fresh fruit, veg and herbs. We grew such a wide variety of tunnel and outdoor crops that it is difficult to include a full review, but here are a few of my top performing outdoor vegetable varieties from last year that will be sure to make the seed order again this year.