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Hardneck vs Softneck Garlic: Choosing the Right One Whilst we're all familiar with garlic in its culinary form. Many first time growers will not realise garlic is separated into these two categories based on each variety’s tendency to develop flower stalks (scape), its hardiness, and its clove formation pattern. Hardneck Hardneck garlic varieties are named for them growing a long flowering stem. These will grow bigger but fewer cloves. They are much easier to peel Much more hardy than softneck varieties.  Have stronger, more complex flavours Hardneck varieties do not store as well as softneck varieties, starting to deteriorate within...

Peas or pea pods come from vining or low-growing plants from the legume family that actually prefer cool weather and reach maturity relatively quickly, hence their popularity on spring menus after the produce drought that is winter. Hence also their ability to be grown in cool, damp places such as England, after which a particular variety of peas takes its name. The peas themselves are actually the seed of the plant, for which the pod that contains them is technically the fruit. English Peas. A Proper Variety English peas, garden peas, or sweet peas generally refer to the same thing...

  There are three basic categories of potatoes which are defined by their time of planting and lifting. These are: First Earlies Second Earlies Main Crop Some other subcategories are Extra First Earlies, Early Maincrop and Late Maincrop. Don't get too hung up on these, some potatoes are very fast to mature and others are a lot slower.  Within each category, there are plenty of different flavours, shapes, colours and textured potatoes. Some have exclusive culinary uses and some are grown for their excellent potentional storage capabilites. There is literally a potato for every garden! With planned planting of the different types, fresh potatoes...