How to grow vegetables in your garden that taste better than anything you will ever find in the supermarket: CIAR BYRNE picks her favourite 20 seeds By Ciar Byrne Published: 07:07 EDT, 11 July 2024 | Updated: 07:26 EDT, 11 July 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Growing your own is good for the planet and great for your health but if you are going to invest all that time, you want to make sure it is worth the effort. The trick is to choose unusual varieties with fabulous flavours you would never find in the supermarket. Serve them freshly picked and you will double the wow factor.
Unlike supermarket produce which is selected to be produced at scale for the mass market, the flavour of these heirloom varieties hasn’t been sacrificed for extra productivity. Plus, while supermarket vegetables have been in cold storage then sitting around on shelves, if you grow your own, you can eat them the same day as picking, when they taste their very best. Some of them, such as agretti, are rare and difficult to get hold of, others have fallen out of fashion over the years, but all are worth growing if you want to serve up something a bit different to friends and family.
Here is a guide to some of the tastiest heirloom vegetable varieties on offer from UK heritage seed suppliers. “Heirloom veg come in a rainbow of colours which are beautiful on the plate but are also packed with the widest range of nutrients. Why would you eat a boring red round tomato when you can have a black one that’s got.