Kathy wrote:
"Antipodean Bucket Farmer" wrote in message
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Hi, Everybody,

My vegetable garden is small, so I want to maximise the
nutrition per square metre of space.

I have about eighty buckets (10-litre/2.5 gal each.)
This area lets me do a "summer mode" with tomatoes,
capsicums, etc, and then a "winter mode" with leafy
greens like spinach, lettuce, etc.



Slightly OT: I'm also maximizing small space and discovered something
interesting last year. Someone gave me a Mennonite cookbook which said that
in poorer cultures, broccoli, bean, and pumpkin leaves are harvested as
vegetables. My crop of broccoli last year yielded enough greens to make up
for their very poor production of heads. I put them in with the beet greens
and used them in vegetable soup. They were great! This year I saved quite a
lot of bolted dark green and red lettuces for soup greens. That doesn't
answer your question - what to plant - but it might point to a way to get
more from what you do plant.



Would that cookbook be 'More With Less' or 'Extending the Table' by any
chance? Those are two of my favorite cookbooks. The MCC (Mennonite
Central Committee) will be or maybe already has released a third
cookbook in the same vein where the theme is seasonal eating which ought
to be perfect for gardeners, called 'Simply in Season'

Troy