Sow it, grow it, dig it up.
Growing guides, calendars and kids’ worksheets for gardeners, allotment growers and families. Every fact here links to its source. Start with the game: can you tell your veg apart?
Which veg?
8 clues. Pick the vegetable each one describes.
Press start for your first clue.
Ten vegetables
- Potato
- Tomato
- Okra
- Aubergine
- Sweet potato
- Broccoli
- Onion
- Chilli
- Rhubarb
- Globe artichoke
Each clue in the game is one of the facts on the veg file. After you pick, the full fact and its source appear. The veg plot drawing is our own.
What is vegetables.im?
vegetables.im is a small hub for growing your own vegetables, for gardeners, allotment growers and families. Each vegetable gets its own site with sourced growing facts, a little history, games and printables. Some true things to start with:
A beginner’s crop
The National Allotment Society calls potatoes an excellent crop for beginners: easy to grow, and they help break up the soil. [source]
Spuds for the war effort
In the First World War, Kew Palace lawn was dug up to grow vegetables, and the lawn alone produced 27 tonnes of potatoes. [source]
Not what it sounds like
Sweet potatoes are close cousins of morning glory and only distantly related to ordinary potatoes. [source]
Patience pays
Don’t harvest rhubarb stems in the first year after planting, and only a few in the second. [source]
Open now
Three vegetable sites are open. Their links open in a new tab.
- Potatoes
potatoes.vegetables.imSeed potatoes, chitting, earthing up, earlies and maincrops, blight and the potato’s journey from the Andes.
Open nowThe Complete Potato Printables Bundle, $12.99 - Tomatoes
tomatoes.vegetables.imCordon and bush tomatoes, sowing indoors, greenhouse and outdoor crops, and how the tomato reached Europe.
Open nowThe Complete Tomato Printables Bundle, $12.99 - Okra
okra.vegetables.imOkra (ladies’ fingers) under glass in the UK and outdoors in warm climates, sowing in warmth, picking the pods, and okra’s history and names.
Open nowThe Complete Okra Printables Bundle, $12.99
Coming soon
Seven more vegetable sites are planned. The two marked “First wave” come next.
- OnionsFirst wave
onions.vegetables.imPlanned: growing onions from sets and seed, spring and autumn planting, and storing the crop.
Coming soon - BroccoliFirst wave
broccoli.vegetables.imPlanned: sprouting broccoli and calabrese, summer and winter types, and brassicas in a crop rotation.
Coming soon - Chillies
chillies.vegetables.imPlanned: sowing chillies in warmth, compact varieties for pots, and growing under cover.
Coming soon - Rhubarb
rhubarb.vegetables.imPlanned: the long-lived perennial vegetable, forcing for early stems, and why you wait a year before picking.
Coming soon - Sweet potatoes
sweet-potatoes.vegetables.imPlanned: growing sweet potatoes from slips, under cover, and how they differ from ordinary potatoes.
Coming soon - Aubergines
aubergines.vegetables.imPlanned: aubergines (eggplants) in the greenhouse, their many colours, and their tomato and pepper relatives.
Coming soon - Globe artichokes
globe-artichokes.vegetables.imPlanned: the big perennial grown for its flower buds, a bee magnet if left to flower.
Coming soon
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