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Musselburgh Leek Harvest in February
Back in August 2022, we planted our Leek plug plants out into our new raised beds. We have been harvesting the smaller leeks from December and then the ground was frozen so it has been difficult to harvest anything. It’s now February and I’m thinking ahead to Spring thinking we are going to need the…
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We have Bare Root Fruit Trees!
One of my New Years resolutions for the vegetable garden was to have fruit trees. We have had previous successes with blueberry bushes and growing strawberries so we wanted to up our gain with the fruit to some apple trees. Who doesn’t love apple pie, apple crumble, apple sauce on porridge etc, there are so…
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Beneficial Garden Insects Series – The Ladybird or Ladybug
Every month I’ll be featuring a new article about beneficial insects in our gardens. Insects, bugs, beetles, flies etc are all beneficial in their own ways to growing vegetables and are great to see and study in the garden. What is a Ladybird or Ladybug? A ladybird or ladybug (in America) is a type of…
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Jobs for the Vegetable Garden – January
It’s all about the preparation this month and resisting to start seeds off too early. In the UK, we have cold weather and sometimes snow in January so unless you have a heated propagator then no seeds can be sown not even in the greenhouse. How to Prepare your Vegetable Garden for the Growing Season…
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Happy New Year! Happy New Plot
Wishing you all a Happy New year and a happy new set of vegetables and harvests this year! Happy Birthday to my blog – Sow, Grow and Harvest it is two years old this month! I started writing about my adventures in growing vegetables two years ago (I don’t know where the time goes) as…
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And Finally we have Sweetcorn to Harvest
If you are a regular to my blog, you may have read my Sweetcorn – Try, Try Again post. We didn’t have much success growing sweetcorn the last time we tried. This year, with the new vegetable garden we put in late in the year, we had no choice but to buy plug plants to…
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Growing Garlic with Onions and Leeks
It’s mid October in the UK, which is a great time to start planting your Garlic. Garlic can be planted from September to March depending on what variety is grown. Garlic is great as a filler for your Leek and Onions beds as any plants that didn’t make it can be replaced with a garlic…
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New House, New Vegetable Beds
It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post but we have finally moved into a greener, less polluted part of Essex in the countryside. Life here is a little bit slower paced, less traffic, although lots of tractors and rolling fields. Its taken some time but our new Vegetable Garden is now…
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Red, Yellow, Orange and Green Tomatoes are here
The tomato plants were slow to get growing this year and never really reached a great height but finally the red tomatoes are here. We are growing a few different varieties this year but the Crimson Crush F1 which are blight resistant tomatoes have come through as a clear winner on the size of the…
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Interesting Vegetables – Growing Dwarf Borlotto Beans
I have wanted to grow Borlotto beans for years so this year when I saw there was a dwarf variety of Borlotto bean, I jumped at the chance to sow them in pots first and then squeeze them into my already packed vegetable plot. I grew these dwarf Borlotto beans especially for the beans in…
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Hi, I’m Tracey — vegetable grower, passionate learner, and firm believer that anyone can grow their own food. While I work as an account manager during the day, my spare time has been dedicated to growing vegetables in my back garden for the last 23 years.
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