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Winter Vegetable Garden – Video Walkthrough in December
It’s nearly Christmas and time to dig up the parsnips for Christmas Dinner! I hope you have some homegrown vegetables for your dinner as well, if not, there’s always next year! Today is the day after the Winter Solstice. It is a typical winters day, wintery bitter cold from the wind but the sunshine is…
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Autumn Vegetable Garden – Video Walkthrough
It is September and Autumn is here. There is a visible shift in the Vegetable Garden in Autumn, the nights draw in, daylight hours reduce to 12 hours and growing slows down. There are the Autumn harvests to look forward to like the squashes and pumpkins that are fattening up or ripening. And the joy…
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The Humble Chive Plant – Harvest Free Seeds Next Year
Chives, have you ever tried growing them? They are the unsung heroes of the vegetable garden and the gift that keeps on giving! All About Chives Chives are part of the allium family and are a perennial which means they can live in the ground for up to 3 years or more. Chives can be…
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How To Harvest Spring Planted Garlic
I really needed to plant some Garlic this year but I’d missed the usual Autumn planting months of September to November, So I decided to try Spring Planted Garlic planted in March but would I actually get any Garlic cloves? (See my original post earlier this year – Growing Spring Planting Garlic in Mid March…
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Part 5 – How to Harvest Sweet Peppers (Rams Horn Type)
This year I’ve grown a great Early variety of Sweet Pepper called ‘Napia’ and some of my early potted plants have already turned red. The rest are still green and they are weighing the plants down. I’ve had about 5 of these rams horn type sweet peppers on each plant. How do I know when…
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Part 7 – How to Harvest a Tomato
July is the time of the year when the tomatoes are changing colour so you’ll be getting lot of different shades of green, orange and red. It’s a magical experience seeing all the different colours. Don’t worry if your Tomatoes haven’t turned red yet, please see my – Top 3 Tips to get your Tomatoes…
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Strawberries – How to Multiply your Number of Strawberry Plants
Do you love strawberries? Yes! I do too and I love a freebie or two. Strawberries are one of the fruiting plants that love to give the gift of more plants year after year. How do I get more Strawberry plants next year? Well I’m glad you asked, I’ve just finished potting up about 11…
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Growing Pumpkins – Let’s Get Ready to Ramble!
This year I am growing a medium size Pumpkin variety called Bellatrix F1 and I’m quite excited to see if it will get to a medium size and how long the vines will be! Pumpkin Variety I’m Growing: Bellatrix F1 I bought the seeds from MoreVeg.co.uk as they are reliable in germination and a very…
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Sow French Beans to fill the gaps in your Vegetable beds in June
By June, most of your vegetables are happily growing in their final spaces in your vegetable beds. You may have a few spaces, where a quick crop of radishes has finished or there is space between other vegetables because they haven’t spread out yet and to fill all your soil space, you could squeeze something…
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