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Holidays are Coming, Tis the Season for Xmas Potatoes
Imagine sitting down to the dinner table at Christmas, with your homegrown potatoes roasted in the oven and on the dinner plate? It’s so fulfilling that you will have achieved growing these potatoes (started in late summer). Your family will be overjoyed with smiles as they can’t wait to try your freshly harvested potatoes and…
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Brussels Sprouts – Dealing with the Cabbage White Butterfly & Caterpillars
I’m on a mission this year to grow Brussels Sprouts and I’m pinning all my hopes on a new method of planting called ‘Hiding the plant in the greenhouse!’ Yes, I am serious. You may say, “that’s ridiculous” or you may say “actually you might have a good idea there”. We are about to see…
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Grow Your Own Sweetcorn Cobs – July Update
There is nothing quite like homegrown Sweetcorn. There simply isn’t! As a child, I didn’t even like sweetcorn that much (but I’d always had it in a can as a child) and I hadn’t even realised how sweetcorn was grown until I watched movies when I was young. Fast forward 25 years and I have…
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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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July Harvests – Peach, Blackberry, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers & Cucumbers
July is another month for harvests. This year I have been enjoying the fruit as well as our vegetables. I am particularly enjoying the following harvests: 1. Lettuce ‘Outrageous’ Started Harvesting: 13 July & ongoing. This lettuce is a cos type, low growing with a tight oval shaped leaves. The best thing is the colour,…
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Keeping the ‘Tangerine Dream’ Alive! – Sweet Peppers are Changing Colour
It’s early July and it’s that time of the year again when the magic happens, THE magical colour changing event 🎉, this is when it’s time for early varieties of Sweet Pepper to change from Green to reddy brown to Red (or from green to any other colour like yellow, orange, purple, black depending on…
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Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July
There’s still time to start growing veg this year! Can’t decide what to grow? Let me give you a helping hand so you can sow the best seeds for July’s Summer Season. The Summer Holidays are coming up as well so if you need to keep the kids entertained, get them involved, heck, get the…
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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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Seeds to Sow in Now and August for a Autumn and Winter Harvest
As we are enjoying the vegetable garden in all its glory, I sometimes forget what happens next and miss the time to sow the Autumn and Winter vegetables. Not this year! I’ve decided what I am sowing and here’s my list, I’ll be sowing these seeds at the end of July and in August. Autumn…
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My Tomato Growing setup in a Greenhouse with a watering system
Last week my Vine Tomato plants – Variety: Costoluto Genovese where looking strong and tall and ready to go into the grow bags for their final positioning. I have been researching methods of growing tomatoes in a greenhouse as the difference from growing outside, is that they will need more water due to the soil…
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