How to best grow fruit and vegetables at home

[grahroll]

Any good food or support plants you grow in your Garden?

Let us know your favourites, hints, tips and ways to save on money and food with them?

Recipes using them are also welcome.

To start it off was this from another discussion about bottled sauces.

@grahroll

attempts to grow chickpeas

Can I recommend you try Pigeon Pea (Cajanus cajan). It is a smaller seed, has a great flavour and is quite hardy. It doesn’t require much water and the yield can be poor but with your hydroponics setup it might work very well for you. It can be grown into a small tree if you wish to plant it out but yields do drop off after about 2 years so you may wish to replant a new set every year for rotation reasons.

It makes the best Dhal…you can use it green or dried and it can be bought from many Indian supply stores. If they don’t understand what you are asking for try “Tur” or “Toor Dal”