growingnetwork/highams park

Money Maker Tomato

This is a cordon, salad tomato, it will grow … up and will need supporting.  Try a long stick, or an old broom handle.  

Climbing cobra bean

These have black seeds inside.  Another favourite of slugs and snails - keep an eye on the plants so they don't end up eating more of the beans than you!

Tiny Tim Tomato

A patio / container tomato.  Lots of small red fruit.  Pots are good because you can move them into the sun but do remember to keep watering.

Runner Bean

This year I’ve planted a couple of climbing beans at the base of a tree to see if they will twist around its trunk.  Keep an eye out for slugs and snails as they love bean plants.

Lupins

Variety of colours.  Snails and slugs love to eat these.  If you 

keep them in a pot (well watered) you'll be able to spot and remove unwelcome, hungy visitors more easily.

Verbena bonariensis 

A perennial so will come back year after year.  It is tall and elegant and once the purple flowers die back the seed heads remain attractive into the autumn and winter.  Cut back for regrowth the following year.

Teasel

Wildlife love this plant - be careful it will self seed so you'll end up with plenty more in the garden.  Before turning into the familiar prickly seed head the flower is an amazing luminescent purple.  It grows to at least 2 metres so keep it at the back of your planting - especially as the stem is prickly too.

Agretti (Saltwort)

This is a edible and great to include in salad leaves.  Reminds me of samphire without the salt.  It will grow to about 20cm high and 30cm wide.  Pick the shoots to eat raw or you can blanche them. 

Delphinium

A tall perennial that will come back year after year.  Plant towards the back against a wall or fence.  Colours will vary - blue, pink, white and purple.

Ildi Tomato

Small yellow tomatoes that will grow up so give them support.  Not sure how abundantly they grow but their colour looks nice.