Across the wide Atlantic, in that home away from home of gardeners, ‘turbo charged’ vegetable plants are all the rage among English ‘grow your own’ aficionados. And when high street marketers such as B&Q get in on the act, there must be something in it. Then the popular newspapers woke to the backyard innovation.
Headlines proclaiming “Bigger and Better, the ‘Turbo Veg’ Cultivated to Provide a Bumper Crop” appeared. In the Daily Mail’s Science Section, Liz Hull explained how the turbo vegetable starts life as two top-quality seeds that are grown into two small plants. The plant that is used for the root version has a high resistance to soil borne diseases and the plant that is used for the shoot is selected for the flavour and abundance of its produce.
