Vegetables from seed featured on Jamie at Home

Nothing can compare to harvesting your own vegetables full of freshness and flavour straight from your garden.

The following information was kindly provided by Jamie at Home Channel 4 & Grow Your Own magazine, the UK's leading kitchen garden magazine.

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Jamie Oliver goes back to his roots for a mouth-watering new series filmed at his Essex home.

With the help of gardener Brian, Jamie has transformed the garden of his Essex house, and discovered a passion for growing his own produce.

Now he wants to show just how easy it is to cultivate amazing fruit and vegetables at home.

Even if you only have a balcony or back yard, Jamie shows how to grow fantastic veg and fruit and turn it into simple, tasty and delicious food. Grow the vegetables featured in the series.

Episode 8 Peppers and Chillies

With peppers and chillies on the menu this week, Jamie makes a delicious spicy pork goulash using a variety of ingredients from the capsicum family.

After a tasting session sampling the hottest chilli in the world Brian keeps his cool, but Jamie's starting to feel the heat.

Roasted peppers stuffed with chilli, tomatoes and fresh herbs make a delicious snack and Jamie experiments with a way to smoke salmon on a domestic hob with a fresh, zingy salsa as the accompaniment.

Varieties to try:-

The long history of its cultivation (as far back as 7500BC) has led to many variations of this plant. Here are three of the best that reflect this diversity.

Fiesta - A variety that produces small plants, ideal for growing in pots either indoors or on the patio. The pretty, upright fruits grow up to 2.5cm (1in) in size and can be yellow, orange and various shades through to red.

Prairie Fire - The plant is a prolific cropper and the small-fruited peppers really pack a punch, despite their size. Crops all summer long with each plant producing as many as a hundred (or more) fiery fruits.

Zimbabwe Bird - Forms a small rounded plant, approximately 30cm (1ft) in height and up to 60cm (2ft) in width. The small, triangular chillies are one of the hottest-tasting available.

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Episode 6 Carrots & Beet Next Tuesday 11th Sept Channel 4 at 8pm

Purple, white and gold carrots, pink and white striped beetroots.

The garden throws up a rainbow-coloured variety of beautiful carrots and beets that form the basis of Jamie's recipes in this programme.

Jamie makes the juiciest pork chop with roasted carrots and beets, shows carrots at their raw best in an Indian carrot salad, and makes an exciting dish with foil-roasted smoked beetroots, beef and a cottage cheese dressing.

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Episode 5 Featured Onions

It is said that on a global scale, more onions are consumed than any other vegetable.
Few kitchen gardens would be complete without a good summer harvest of this popular and, many would argue, indispensable bulb.
The secrets to a successful crop are preparing the ground well in advance, making sure the plants get plenty of sun, and watering them well early in the season.
Spring-sown (main crop) onions are the most commonly grown, but add to them some salad (spring) onions and the earlier cropping Japanese (winter) varieties and you can produce them virtually all-year round.

Jamie pulls up some of his first onions of the year and makes a crisp and fresh cheese and onion salad.
And he uses red onions in an onion and potato al forno with tender roast pork.
Brian, possibly the healthiest man on the planet, munches on raw garlic as they chat about the health benefits before Jamie makes a sensational English onion and leek soup with cheddar cheese.

Onion Seeds

Onion Red Baron
Onion Ailsa Craig Prizewinner
Onion Bedfordshire Champion
Onion Bristol F1
Onion Dorato De Parma
Onion Long De Florence Simiane
Onion Rijnsburger 5
Onion Senshyu
Onion Sprouting 30 gram
Onion Sturon
Onion Utah Jumbo White
Onion Walla Walla

Salad Onion Savel
Salad onion Paris Silverskin
Salad Onion Ramrod
Salad Onion Summer Isle
Salad Onion White Lisbon
Salad Onion Winter Over

Leek Blauwgroene Herfst ARDEA
Leek Blauwgroene Herfst Tadorna
Leek Carentan Organic Sourced
Leek Imperial Summer F1 Baby Veg
Leek Musselburgh
Leek Natan Organic
Leek Oarsman F1
Leek Sprouting 30 gram
Leek Tornado Baby Veg
Leek Winter Giant 3
Leek Zermatt Baby Veg

In Brief:-
Episode 1 Featured Growing Tomatoes

Vine
Moneymaker - a well-known and much loved variety for the home grower, equally good in the greenhouse or outdoors. The smooth, medium-size fruits have a fine flavour.

Bush type

Totem F1 - this heavy-cropping variety produces large amounts of crimson-coloured tomatoes low down on its stocky stems. One of the best varieties for growing in pots and suitable for growing both indoors and out.

Trailing (hanging basket) type

Gartenperle (Garden Pearl) - a good choice for growing in baskets, containers and window boxes. It is a prolific cropper, producing delicious fruits through the whole summer.

Episode 2 Featured Growing Courgettes

Courgettes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow and will rarely disappoint.

Courgette Deffender - A heavy cropper with good disease resistance, this reliable variety will produce courgettes all summer long.

Courgette Green Bush - An early-cropping plant that produces masses of small, tender fruits.

Courgette One Ball - Produces round, yellow courgettes with excellent flavour, good for roasting and stuffing. The yields from this novelty variety are high.

Episode 3 Featured The Perfect Barbeque

Every kitchen garden, whether a full-size allotment or a handful of pots, should include lettuce.

Lettuce Little Gem - Small cos lettuce perfectly suited to closer spacings or as a catch crop. The dark green heads can be harvested well into autumn.

Lettuce Llollo Rossa - A crimson looseleaf lettuce that will bring colour to salads. The leaves are frilly and resistant to bolting.

Lettuce Tom Thumb - This small but reliable lettuce produces tight heads in double-quick time. Can be grown under cloches through to October and is slow to bolt.

Lettuce Valdor - Cold resistance makes this hardy head-former the perfect choice for growing through the winter to ensure a year-round leaf supply.

Episode 4 Featured French Beans

You'll find the taste of home-grown beans far superior to those you can buy in shops and you can grow a wide range of different varieties not suitable for commercial production.

Varieties to try.

Goldfield - A reliable climber that will reach around 1.5 to 1.8m (5 to 6ft) in height. Produces broad, fleshy, bright yellow pods.

Hunter - A high-yielding climbing variety that provides a heavy crop of delicious, long, flat pods for several months.

The Prince - Popular dwarf variety that grows to around 60cm (2ft). Produces extremely tasty slim pods that are good for freezing.

This information was kindly provided by Grow Your Own, the UK's leading kitchen garden magazine.

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The cultural information should be used as a guide only, I have found a number of different sowing techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem to be a standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide only, you probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed like Lobelia Begonia etc requires no cover.
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