Superfoods! A term that we’ve heard floating around more than ever in recent years. But what actually are they?
Found to be considerably high in nutritional value, superfoods are ingredients jam-packed with essential vitamins and minerals. Fabulous for creating a balanced diet and boosting a healthier lifestyle, superfoods can be included within a variety of your everyday meals and snacks. Easily planted, grown and harvested throughout your own garden, superfoods can be included into your kitchen garden to provide you with scrumptious superfood goodness throughout the year. From the green delights of broccoli and kale to the sweet tastes of oranges and tomatoes, let’s explore how you can grow and harvest superfoods in your very own garden.
How to grow superfoods
Effortlessly grown and maintained in your garden, our kitchen garden specialists are the experts when it comes to planting and nurturing the most delectable home grown produce. And they especially adore growing a wide range of superfoods!
The first step when growing superfoods is to make sure that you have a prepped and prime growing space. For locations great and small, there are many different ways that our designers can establish and slot raised beds and striking greenhouses into your landscape. With a helping hand from our expert designers, our masterly landscaping team are then able to handcraft our glorious kitchen garden spaces to life. Ensuring that your kitchen garden gets off to the best head start, our experienced horticulturalists are able to create bespoke planting recipes filled with all of your superfood favourites.
Once your growing area is prepped and ready to go, we can next begin growing our superfoods. Let’s explore a few of our favourites!
Beetroot
Easy to grow and a delicious root vegetable, Beta vulgaris (better known as beetroot) is an incredibly handy superfood to have growing in your garden. A fabulous ingredient for homemade salads, wholesome soups or even healthier brownie recipes too! Sown from March-June, beetroot seeds can be sown straight into the soil and can be harvested from June right through until October. Full of antioxidants and essential nitrates, beetroots are fantastic for both your lung and heart health.
Carrots
Worshippers of the sun, carrots flourish best when planted in areas that receive direct sunlight. Sown from February until July, homegrown carrots are a kitchen garden must and are a superfood through and through due to their high vitamin content. A versatile kitchen ingredient that can be used to make fresh energising smoothies to enhancing your scrumptious Sunday roast dinners.
Kale
Let’s head on over and take a look into the clean greens that you could grow within your kitchen garden. Nutrient dense and an exceptionally easy leafy green to grow, kale has to be one of our favourite superfoods.
A great ingredient for whizzing up in your green smoothies and daily cleansing shots, kale is fabulous for your immunity and is jam-packed with vitamin C. Growing leaves during some of the coldest months, kale is a incredibly valuable during the winter months and can be harvested to enrich a variety of your homemade meals throughout the colder period.
Spinach
A high source of fibre, protein and antioxidants, spinach is another incredibly valuable superfood to nurture and harvest in your garden. Known for promoting healthy eye health and helping to lower blood pressure, spinach has an endless list of health benefits.
Runner beans
Climbing up and growing over glorious garden archways, runner beans make a beautiful addition to any kitchen garden. High in fibre, vitamins and folate, runner beans are also significantly low in calories too. Perfect for growing in containers and raised beds, runner beans are a scrumptious superfood than can be harvested from mid-summer to autumn.
Bell peppers
Grown in the greenhouse or outside in the kitchen garden, bell peppers are a sweet and tasty fruit than can be easily included into your superfood planting plan. Thriving in sunny and warm conditions, bell peppers need to firstly be sown indoors from winter-spring and can then be harvested later in the year, from July until October. Rich in vitamins and antioxidants, bell peppers are fantastic for encouraging a balanced and healthy diet.
Tomatoes
Enhancing a variety of meals, tomatoes are great for supporting a healthy and balanced diet. Fabulous for creating cosy autumn soups to tasty recipe sauces, tomatoes can be used to create a number of delicious meals and snacks. Easy to grow, there are a wide range of tomato varieties for you to choose from.
Looking to transform an area of your garden into a glorious growing space filled with homegrown goodness and scrumptious superfoods? Talk to us today to find out how our kitchen garden specialists craft flourishing and sustainable growing spaces.
