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Early July Progress in the Vegetable Garden
July is the month for filling the gaps in your vegetable beds, waiting for harvests and buying seed for sowing July to August for Autumn and winter vegetables. This year we are having a mild summer in the UK, with periods of rain and very short periods of heat up to 30 degrees centigrade. We…
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‘Nature does it best’ Pest Control in the Vegetable Garden
I grow vegetables organically, this means with no chemicals but sometimes it is a challenge to keep the pests away from your prized vegetables. I’ll be exploring a few different methods of pest control, some that I use in our vegetable plot. Black fly, Green Fly and White Fly Black fly, Green fly and White…
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Highlights from our Vegetable Garden – 25 June 2023
I thought I’d share some highlights of our family Vegetable Garden this week and it’s all about the flowers and the fruit and our first courgette of the year. Vegetable Garden Highlights Vegetables and Fruits Flowering in June Vegetables & fruit that are forming baby forms in June Vegetables & fruit being harvested in June
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June Vegetable Harvest – Lettuce, Peas, Radish and Baby Cucumbers.
It’s the third week in June, the UK has reached nearly 30 degrees centigrade for the first time this year and we are overrun with Lettuce. This year is a good year for Lettuce! Lettuce, lettuce and more lettuce We have 6 fully grown romaine lettuces plus some loose leaf lettuce and it’s lettuce for…
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Interesting Vegetables: Growing Ball Courgettes – Green Striped Ball – Piccolo F1
The shape of these courgettes fascinates me and how they grow on the courgette plant. One of the best things about growing your own vegetables is the wide variety of shapes and different varieties you can grow yourself and not find in the shops. Why grow normal courgettes, when you can grow ball courgettes? A…
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Late May Update – Vegetable Growing Progress
The growing month has been definitely May and I’m sure it will continue into June. All my plants have grown substantially in May and now there’s hardly anything left in the greenhouse as almost everything has been planted outside. Here’s a Video Walkthrough of my Vegetable Garden in Video in Late May. Vegetables planted out…
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What are Garlic Scapes? and is my Garlic Flowering?
This week my garlic looks like it has a flower spike coming up through the middle. If your garlic or onions are doing this, don’t worry and don’t be tempted to pull them up yet. These are what’s called Garlic Scapes. The garlic is not ready yet and when a garlic scape appears it is…
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Let’s Grow Together – Weekly – Getting Children into Gardening – Free downloads
As it’s National Children’s Gardening Week from 27 May to 4 June, I thought I’d collate a few free gardening activities, colouring and wildlife sheets for you to keep your little ones happy whilst introducing them into gardening. Free Gardening Activity Sheets From HomemadeHeather.com this free pdf pack of gardening activities include: Vegetable Dot to…
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Lettuce and Pak Choi Harvest in Late May and Early June
This year has been a successful year for Green Lettuce and a poor year for red Lettuce as only one seed germinated. I sowed 3 types of lettuce this year, a romaine green lettuce, a red lettuce and a light green loose leaf lettuce – Black Seeded Simpson. This is the first time I’ve had…
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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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