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    Edible ground cover recommendations?

    As I clear patches of ground I'd like to fill the bare patches with something edible and quick and easy to sow - preferably broadcast. I have oodles of seeds (not the VSP ) many of which I wouldn't choose to grow in a veggie bed (like "ordinary" lettuces, radish, brassicas and peas and beans). I don't want to eat everything that grows - but it would be good to have the option (so not green manure).
    Any recommendations, please?
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    Are you going to water or just let them take their chances? I would scatter landcress and mizuna, beetroot if you're going to water, nasturtiums (the seeds are supposed to be nice pickled but that's something I've never done), purslane, ransoms if you can get some, spring onions to eat or to flower calendula, sweet violets (viola odorata), sweet cicely - never been able to get that to grow, I forget where I've put the seeds and probably dig them out alpine strawbs, I think there is a variety of mahonia that creeps or stays low rather than bushing, you can eat the berries of that (so it's said).
    Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
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      Thanks mothhawk. Sorry, I should have said that I don't want anything permanent there as next year, I hope to replan the lot, so its temporary ground cover (to slow up the weeds) - and I won't be watering or cossetting . Landcress and Mizuna, I hadn't thought of and nasturtiums and marigolds would be good too. I'm sure I have lots of old packets of seeds of those!!

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      • #4
        Those four are probably best then, 'cos they'll hold their own against any weeds that come up I would think, and they're fairly slug resistant too

        edit - well, not the mizuna
        Last edited by mothhawk; 27-06-2013, 06:34 PM.
        Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
        Endless wonder.

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        • #5
          I have a lot of saved chard and oriental mustards too that I'm going to throw around! Its actually a good way of getting rid of some old seeds with an easy conscience!!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
            I have a lot of saved chard and oriental mustards too that I'm going to throw around! Its actually a good way of getting rid of some old seeds with an easy conscience!!
            I like that idea
            Location....East Midlands.

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            • #7
              Me too ...
              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

              You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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              • #8
                What are my chances of growing a pumpkin/squash/marrow from the literally hundreds of seeds I've saved from every squash I've eaten over the last decade There's only one way to find out..........

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