12 month Grow your own planting plans

rednick

:T Thanks for the plan, can't wait to get started.

Seabean

Thanks for the plans - should be really useful.

mum_of_4

Imagine, a filling meal that costs as little as 60p for a family of 4.


This was in the October Good Food Magazine last year, I've adapted it to feed my family.

Baked beans
2 tsp oil
1 onion , halved and thinly sliced (your own)
4 rashers streaky bacon , cut into large-ish pieces
1 tsp sugar , brown if you have it
400g can chopped tomatoes (or your own)
200ml stock from a cube (or your own)
410g can cannellini beans, butter or haricot beans in water (your own)

Wedges
1 tbsp white flour (plain or self-raising)
0.5 tsp cayenne pepper , paprika or mild chilli powder
1 tsp dried mixed herb (optional) (your own)
2 baking potatoes , each cut into 8 wedges (or your own)
2 tsp oil

For the wedges, mix the flour, cayenne and herbs, add salt/pepper, then toss with the potatoes and oil until well coated. Tip into roasting tin, bake for approx 35 mins until crisp and cooked through.

Heat the oil in a non-stick pan, then gently fry onion & bacon for 5-10 mins until onions are softened and starting to turn golden. Stir in sugar,tomatoes, stock and seasoning, simmer sauce for 5 mins. Add beans, simmer for 5 mins until the sauce has thickened. Serve with the wedges.

I do grow beans for drying but would need about 10kg or more to make about 17/18 meals in our house. So will be working out how many beans i will need to dry to give me a good supply to make during the winter next year. I believe the sauce can be frozen which would be very handy.

Even if you haven't got room to grow extra beans this is a great budget meal. Dried beans always have to be soaked and so a 500g pack gives you 1kg when soaked in water. I normally plan ahead anyway so soaking the beans overnight is not really a hassle. I've just checked and the beans are about 60p for 500g

Anyway thought this might be of interest.

mambury

fab recipe. I make something similar with beans but I also add some garlic, a little mustard and some soy sauce. Cook it in the slow cooker (after you have rapid boiled the beans) in baches and it freezes well too!

Mmmmnnnnnnnnnnnn............Off to dig out the beans from the freezer for tea!

My planting plans are on hold for this year as we have decided to build and extention and this would mean digging up the garden as we need to reroute all the pipework going into the septic tank. I am going to have a go growing in pots in the front garden (covered in stone chips.) and start work on the beds this summer. If the building work is finsihed in time I might put down some green manure to over winter and get organised for next year.

mum_of_4

mambury wrote: »

fab recipe. I make something similar with beans but I also add some garlic, a little mustard and some soy sauce. Cook it in the slow cooker (after you have rapid boiled the beans) in baches and it freezes well too!

Mmmmnnnnnnnnnnnn............Off to dig out the beans from the freezer for tea!

Yes might try adding garlic. The thing mwith baked beans is that the children normally say the tinned stuff is better but for the first time they asked if they could have some more. I'd have to use at least 4 tins for just baked beans on toast in our house.

Now I'm going to study my planting plans to see if I can gig things about a bit to fit so more beans in. At a guess I'm thinking about moving the fruit at the top of the plot and seeing if I can squeeze a 25ft double row in. Plus grow some beans either side of the shed instead of sweetpeas or maybe inter plant the flowers in the with the beans around the plot.

The plot is still well and truely frozen so doubt I'll be doing anything on the plot until the end of next week - just heard on the TV that we are getting loads of snow on Monday night :mad:

mrslovetocook

Thanks for the planting plans. Plenty of enthusiasm but not much experience. Cant wait to get digging.

tangojulie

Plans look great, thank you

growingafamily

have pm'd you too,
thank you : )

sjinsky

Hi Marianne

Thank you so much for sharing.

Your plans look fab, I would love to grow ALL that, I feel so healthy just lookin at the plans!

carlsberggal

Many, many thanks to you for sending me the plan, I hope to get an allotment soon, so this will be extremely helpfull.