Assortment - Giant vegetable garden
For lovers of unusual fruit and vegetables, this assortment includes 5 oversized varieties. From giant tomatoes to emblematic gourds, grow these very large-fruited varieties and transform your vegetable garden into a veritable spectacle of nature!
Seeds for the Giant Vegetable Garden assortment are sown from February to July, depending on the variety.
Varieties for the Giant Vegetable Garden assortment
This assortment includes :
-Eggplant "Monstrueuse de New York".
This old-fashioned, compact, late-growing and vigorous variety produces very large, rounded, dark purple glazed fruits. They can reach up to 2 kg, with delicious, firm flesh and few seeds.
This giant, slow-growing variety has a green-white head weighing up to 2.5 kg. Whatever its size, the flesh remains tender without ever becoming fibrous.
-Armenian Cucumber - Snake Cucumber
This ancient variety, adapted to all climates, especially the hottest, produces fruit that is often curved and can reach over 1 m in length. They are thornless and sweet-tasting, especially before they exceed 40 cm.
-Maxima "Atlantic Giant" squash
The competition variety par excellence! These extraordinary fruits reach 45 to 50 kg under good irrigation and fertilization conditions, and up to 100 kg for the largest specimens. Their orange flesh is used in soups, tarts, purées, etc.
To obtain fruit weighing over 50 kg, leave one fruit per plant, provide good irrigation and balanced fertilization, and leave plenty of space.
This old French variety offers large, scarlet-red fruits, generally weighing 300 to 500 g, but some can reach 1 kg. Their flesh is dense and very fragrant, and contains few seeds.
How to grow giant vegetables?
In addition to variety, a number of other factors are essential for growing giant vegetables:
- well-tilled soil rich in humus ;
- warmth ;
- regular watering;
- regular use of organic fertilizers such as well-decomposed manure and fermented plant extracts;
- constant monitoring throughout the growing period;
- etc.