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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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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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5 Symptoms that your Plant is Feeling Stressed & How to Make them feel better.
The weather has been cooler this year with periods of rain and lack of long periods of full sun. These conditions are fantastic for cool loving vegetables like lettuce, carrots, parsnips, spinach. Lack of sunshine is not liked by courgettes, pumpkins or squash. How do I tell if my Vegetable Plant is feeling stressed? There…
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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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What I have been Sowing, Growing & Harvesting in June 2024
Here’s the end of the month round up of what I have been Sowing, Growing and Harvesting in June. In the UK, June 2024 has been quite summery with 25 days out of 30 being sunny or cloudy. Temperature on average has been 19 degrees centigrade. Until the heatwave of 4 days at the end…
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June Harvest – Lettuce, Radish, Broad Beans, Cucumbers, Logan Berries, Blueberries.
June is the month for Harvests and this year is no exception. Here are the harvests I’ve had this month in the Vegetable Garden. Red ‘Walderman Dark’ Lettuce I absolutely love red lettuce. I love the texture of the leaves, they look like they are bubbling and shiny. The flash of green in the centre…
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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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Part 6 – How to Harvest your Broad Bean Pods with Video + FREE PDF Timeline
It’s been a great year for Broad Beans! If you have grown them for the first time this year and followed my FREE PDF Broad Bean Growing Checklist, you’ll know that they should be ready for harvesting about Mid June onwards. What do Broad Bean pods look like when they are ready to harvest? The…
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Strawberries – My leaves look like lace, what’s eating my strawberry leaves?
It’s June, it’s Strawberry harvesting season, and some pests want to butt into the harvest party like an uninvited guest! The latest pest on our Strawberry plants, have shredded the leaves leaving elongated oval shapes in the leaves. The strawberry leaves look like lace, so let’s look at what might be eating the leaves. Strawberry…
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