The alternative guide FOR cool stuff to grow
JAMES WONG
HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION!
THE GREAT SOW-A-LONG!
the 21st Century foodie's guide to growing incredible edibles, from saffron to sweet potatoes in any British back garden.
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With my new book, blog & national tour of talks, I hope to free allotmenteers from the grow your own timewarp of 'dig for victory' style veg & open up a whole new world of weird and wonderful flavours.
From cocktail kiwis and wasabi to green tea & inca berries, a massive array of delicious, stunningly beautiful and super easy-to-grow crops are out there just waiting to be given a chance.
Everything's been trialled and tested by me in my tiny Croydon garden to be genuinely easy-to-grow even on our blustery little islands. So what on earth are you waiting for?
Curious? Read my full manifesto here.
SOW-A-LONG WITH ME IN 2013
This year I'll be posting info about absolutely everything I'll be sowing right here, complete with facebook & twitter updates about exactly when and how to do it. So what're ya waiting for? Come on & join in!
Tour Dates
So, What could you be growing?
MY NEW BLOG
I'M FAST COMING TO THE END OF A CRAZY 60-DATE TOUR, BUT YOU CAN STILL CATCH ME GEEKING OUT IN:
Take a sneak peek at what's growing on in my back garden right now.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Hillmount & Hillside Garden Centres
Friday 14th & Saturday 15th June
Buckingham Garden Centre
Saturday 22nd June
Horticultural Trades Association
Tuesday 25th June
Chelsea Physic Garden
15th September
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
£1.85
clickable links to suppliers for every plant in the book
MIDLANDS
my new video blog all filmed in my trial grounds. (aka front garden)
LONDON
connect with me for live updates of new tour dates.
Youtube Channel
Supplier list
STUFF I'M GROWING RIGHT NOW
Cocktail Kiwis: Nature's Haribo
Mega sweet, fuzz-free mini kiwis that hail from the frozen wastes of Siberia? No I’m not making it up. Intensely sugary, super easy-to-grow and even hardy down to -35C, if haribo reinvented the kiwi this would be it!
Growing Chilean Guavas
Queen Victoria’s favourite fruit, these intensely fragrant berries somehow manage to combine the flavours of wild strawberries, pink guavas and a hint of candy floss.
NEW ZEALAND YAMS
EXOTIC INCA BERRIES
Sticky, sweet & incredibly exotic, you might not believe it but uber trendy South American inca berries are infinitely easier to grow than the lowly tomato. If you plant just one fruit crop next year, make this it!
Jelly bean-coloured, blight resistant 'spuds' that even come with tasty shamrock-shaped leaves. Watch this space for my upcoming guide to growing cooking and eating these tasty, easy-to-grow veg.
© 2013 James Wong
CHICKPEA 'EDAMAME'
Love those deliciously nutty pods of edamame beans you get in Japanese restaurants, but frustrated you can’t grow them in the UK? Well I think I have gone one better with super easy-to-grow chickpea ‘edamame’!
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