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Let’s Grow Veg Together – Weekly – Growing is good for the mind and soul, Video Lapse, Bonsai & Nutrition
Welcome to this weeks instalment of Let’s Grow Veg together Weekly. This weeks selection of articles and social media links concentrate on health and nutrition. Growing is good for the Mind and Soul According to recent scientific research, gardening and growing vegetables have significant positive health benefits. Read 6 Ways Gardening easily improves your mental…
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Growing Unusual Vegetables – Summer Squash – Petty Pan (Sow Apr-Early June & Harvest July onwards)
Summer squash is a unique shaped scalloped little vegetable and does not look anything like a butternut squash. It has a flying saucer shape to it and it can fit in the palm of your hand. They come in white, yellow and green. Summer squashes come in two types, Baby Squash also known as Petty…
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Let’s Grow Veg Together – Weekly – Veg Growing articles, Nature News & Growing Tips from the Web
In this weekly segment, I’ll be bringing you nature highlights, tips and vegetable growing news from the web and social media. After all, we are all learning from one another to try and grow the best vegetables we can in our plots and allotments, so Let’s Grow Together! If you have any great links to…
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It’s time to Sow Pumpkins in May in the UK
There are so many varieties of Pumpkin to grow, there’s one type for everyone and every size garden. Pumpkins Variety – Baby Bear We are sowing Variety – Baby Bear this year. This is a small variety and each pumpkin grows up to 1kg in weight and is a perfect meal for one. There’s usually…
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Early May Updates – Vegetable Growing Progress
There’s has been lots of progress this past month, here’s some of my highlights on my vegetable plot and greenhouse. The greenhouse has been great in the cold, windy and wetter weather. Seeds have still been germinating in approximately 7 to 10 days. And there’s still room in the greenhouse which is great. Yesterday the…
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Sowing Pak Choi in March to May for a Summer Harvest
I didn’t know you could grow Pak Choi in the Summer time. I thought they were an autumn growing plant and as I was looking at a seed catalogue online, they came up to start sowing in March to May for a Summer Harvest. Pak Choi has a long oval shaped leaf with a small…
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It’s All About Peas – Very Early Peas planted out into the ground in early April.
As part of my plan to grow peas for most of this year successionally (which means one after another), it’s now early April and the very early peas variety: Oskar have been planted outside in our raised bed. The 9 pea plants are each about 3 inches high. The very early pea ‘Oskar’ were sown…
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Vegetable Seed Sowing Update – Mid March
It has been a cold and wet start to March this year. I was worried about sowing too much too early and about the cold temperatures last week that were below zero degrees Celsius. However I have tried sowing my very early peas first in the cold unheated greenhouse to see what happens. The last…
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Sowing Sweet Pepper Seeds Indoors in Mid February
I’ve been itching to start sowing my seeds this year and one of the first seeds to sow in Mid February are the Sweet Peppers. My Chosen Variety: Semaroh An Eastern European Sweet Pepper which is long and slim like a bulls horn. Measure to 16cm long and turns from green to red. They are…
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I Love Peas and I want to grow them all year
I love growing peas and a few years ago I managed to grow them successionally for a few months during the spring and summer. This year I want to try and grow peas one variety after the other from sowings in early February to October which means I need a very early variety to start…
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