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Sweetcorn – Try, Try, Try again
This year is the first time I have grown Sweetcorn. There has been mixed results and I am disappointed but sometimes that’s the way it goes, you win some, you loose some. The best thing with vegetable growing is that you can always try, try, try again. I only have two seeds that germinated out…
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Growing Pumpkins for Halloween
We are so excited as we haven’t grown Pumpkins before and we have always wanted to grow our own pumpkins in time for Halloween. We are sowing variety: Jack O Lantern – This variety is a perfect size for carving lanterns with soft orange flesh. Sow: May to June Harvest: September to October Top Tips…
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All About our Fruit Garden
This year we have started a new fruit garden to go along with the vegetables we are growing. Blueberries We are currently growing two different varieties of Blueberries so we can harvest them one after the other. Blueberry – Chandler This variety is known for the worlds largest blueberry. With a delicious flavour and ripening…
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How to get your Child involved in Vegetable Growing from a young age
We love growing vegetables and we would like that love to rub off on our daughter who is 2 and a half years old. We have been doing activities that involve nature and the outdoors to try and nurture her love for the vegetable garden. Here’s a few ideas on how to get your children…
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Spinach Leaves and Strawberries Harvest
We always grow Perpetual Spinach in our vegetable garden because it performs very well, time and time again, year on year. Perpetual Spinach is better than normal spinach because If you are reading this thinking I might give this spinach ago, there’s still time to sow Perpetual Spinach over winter in September or October for…
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Week 2 in June – Vegetable Planting Progress
It’s still hot hot hot in Essex, UK this week and lots of progress has been made in the Vegetable Garden this week. All the plants are looking very green and abundant. Walkthrough Video for Week 2 in June Updates in the Raised Beds Small Tomato Plants Planted Out So I’m risking it, the tomatoes…
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Vegetables to Sow in June
June is a great month to start growing vegetables as there is heat so just about anything should germinate quickly within about a week (there are some exceptions). If you haven’t started any vegetables this year, grab yourself any type of container, put drainage holes in it and sow lettuce, peas, herbs or dwarf beans.…
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All About Our Vegetable Garden
Welcome to all my new readers and visitors to my Vegetable Growing blog. You may be all wondering how my vegetable garden was designed and created or how we built it in our back garden or you may just want a nosey around to see what vegetables and fruit I’m currently growing. There’s a new…
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Week 1 in June – Vegetable Planting Progress
It has been a hot week, which has spurred on the vegetables to get growing especially the Tomatoes and Sweet Peppers (which I’d almost given up on). Even though the tomatoes are still small plants, they have grown lots of leaves so I would usually pot them on into a larger pot at this time.…
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Pesky Pests in the Vegetable Garden – Aphids, Blackfly and Greenfly
This year there seems to be an explosion of blackfly, greenfly and green aphids on quite a number of fruit, vegetables and flowers we are growing. We have blackfly on our apple tree leaves which are making them curl up. We have blackfly underneath the leaves on our sunflowers and there are greenfly on the…
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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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