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Late Summer – August sowings Update for Autumn & Winter vegetables – planting out in raised beds.
It’s been a few weeks since I sowed the late summer sowings. The Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, kale, spring cabbage and fennel are now seedlings and ready to be planted out in my raised beds. However anything from the Brassica family i.e Cauliflower, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage and Kale still needs to be planted under netting in…
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And Finally… The Italian Job – Tomato Harvest in Late August
And finally the Italian beefsteak tomatoes – Variety: Costoluto Genovese have gone red. They have been in the greenhouse and due to the stems getting so heavy they fell over so they have now all been harvested. Update on the Greenhouse Growbag watering system In May, I posted – My Tomato Growing Setup about my…
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Yellow, Orange, Red – Colour Changing Sweet Rams Horn Peppers
The 6 months care and attention needed to look after the Sweet Peppers is finally paying off and they are rewarding plants by giving a fantastic colour change display from yellow to orange to deep red. The Sweet Peppers I’m growing this year were started off in a seed tray indoors sown in February. Sweet…
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1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..
It’s certainly been a bumper year for courgettes, I thought I’d never say this but when do they stop?! I thought that 3 ball courgettes per plant on two plants were just enough to deal with, my husband decided to give the plants a feed with Tomato-rite and two weeks later, we have more to…
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August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, squash, courgettes, Carrots, tomatoes.
The August vegetable harvests just keep coming week by week and they are truly colourful. There is such a variety of vegetables and fruit to pick and create some magic in the kitchen with. Garlic Butter Vegetables Last night we picked a ball courgette, baby yellow squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn and spinach. I made a garlic…
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August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, strawberries, Baby squash, ball courgettes, Carrots, French beans, spinach, tomatoes.
The August vegetable harvests just keep coming week by week and they are truly colourful. There is such a variety of vegetables and fruit to pick and create some magic in the kitchen with. Garlic Butter Vegetables Last night we picked a ball courgette, baby yellow squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn and spinach. I made a garlic…
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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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Why are my Tomatoes not going red? 3 Top Tips to get Tomatoes to turn Red
Sometimes it feels like a lifetime waiting for tomatoes to ripen to red especially when they were sown in January or February and now it’s Late July and you can’t wait any longer! However all hope is not lost, there are 3 things you can do start the process of turning green tomatoes red. 3…
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Let’s Grow Together – Weekly – Recipes for Vegetable Gluts
Welcome to Sow, Grow, Harvest’s weekly digital and social media great finds. I’ve been on the hunt for some great recipes to use up the vegetable harvest gluts in my vegetable garden at the moment and other recipes for vegetables I’ve not eaten before. Petty Pan (baby) Squash Recipes Oven Recipe Ginger spiced stuffed Petty…
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July Harvest – Beans, Carrots, Kohl Rabi and first tomatoes
Our vegetable harvests are weekly and our strawberries and blueberries are being picked daily. It’s Mid July and we are harvesting: Broccoli – Kabuki F1 The Broccoli has done really well since we have received lots of rain. It has been in a cage with environmesh netting since the end of May but only really…
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