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Buying Vegetable Plug Plants: What I Bought for my Winter Vegetable Garden
The tomatoes are finally turning red, the courgettes are turning into marrows, the beds are looking tired (they are not the only ones in this heat!). Are you wondering is this it, for the year? It’s not time to give up, just yet, as there’s Winter vegetables waiting to be grown. “They are here!” I…
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What to Sow in August: The Great Raised Bed Staring Competition
You wander into the garden, after the recent heatwaves, and it is all looking a bit ‘crispy’. One raised bed has a few tomato plants clinging on for dear life, with curled leaves and green tomatoes and the other raised bed has 2 chard seedlings, a rogue sunflower and a tired lettuce plant that has…
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Part 5 – Mini Melons Harvest Themselves
There should definitely be a warning of a crash mat being required and it is so true what they say about Mini Melons harvesting themselves. Harvest themselves? How do they do that? When Mini Melons are ready for harvest, they drop off the vine and harvest themselves! These means you have to keep on eye…
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Sow, Grow & Harvest August 2024 – Growing Diary
August 2024 Weather Daylight Hours in August in UK: 14 Hours. August has definitely been the month for harvesting. It hasn’t been especially hot, mostly maintaining 21 to 24 degrees centigrade with a few hotter days, one day hit 32 degrees C. We also didn’t have any rainfall for a whole month and then some…
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Vegetables to Sow & Plant for Autumn & Winter
In August, your vegetable beds are packed with growing vegetables and the harvest season is here. You finally feel like you can take your foot off the accelerator pedal and enjoy the fruits and vegetables of your hard labour and the summer, now it has arrived. However if you do a little bit of planning…
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Cooking with Yellow Ball Courgettes – Beef & Rice
I love cooking and I admit I never follow a recipe properly. I always think it needs more of that or less of this. I’ve not always been good at cooking, when I was teenager, I used to burn everything and my mother use to say you’ll have to marry a man that can cook…
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A Colourful Harvest Palette – Tomatoes & Sweet Peppers
‘Tangerine Dream’ Sweet Pepper, you did not let me down! What a stunning bright Orange bitesized sweet pepper. Tangerine Dream Sweet Peppers grow pointing to the sky instead of hang down like long peppers. They remind me of chilli peppers. They turn from green to a light orange and then a bright orange. They are…
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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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Vegetables to Sow in August & Bulbs to Pre-Order
It’s August and there’s still time to sow Vegetables to eat before Winter in December and there’s still time to sow seeds to bag a Spring Harvest. Also now is the time to Pre-order your Onion Sets & Garlic Online (if you are in the UK) ready to plant in November to Harvest July &…
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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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