A great alternative vegetable with flavour that improves after frost. Also known as the Vegetable Oyster, as its flavour is said to resemble that seafood

Easy to grow and well worth trying. Sow the seeds in batches of 3 seeds at 15cm intervals in April. Thin to single seedlings as soon as possible. Keep weed free and water regularly. Lift roots carefully from October onwards. Can be left in the ground and harvested as required through the winter.