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5 Easy Vegetables to Grow in May in your Garden
1. Radish Radishes have got to be the Number 1 easiest vegetable to grow. Push the seeds into the soil in March onwards in pots or the ground and ‘hay presto’ a radish after a minimum of 4 weeks. Radishes are a great vegetable to start children off growing with as they are a quick…
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Spring Flowers of Fruit
All the fruit trees, bushes and plants we have in our garden this year are now flowering. It is a glorious sight, with the pink Apple blossom and white flowers bells on the blueberries and the white petals on the strawberries. All ready for bearing fruit this year. We also planted some flower bulbs in…
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Our Vegetable Plot Plan 2021
I like to be organised and have a plot plan and what to sow when list to guide me through the growing season. When the growing season gets going in April and May, I feel like it can get a little overwhelming and almost chaotic if I haven’t got some sort of plan. Last year…
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How to Sow Early Peas into Root Trainer Cells
We started sowing two varieties of Pea this year in the middle of March. This is very early however we are trying to get as much out of our vegetable plot this year so are attempting to see if we can get peas out onto the plot and producing by the end of April. As…
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How to Plan Your Vegetable Plot – Part 3 – Choosing Vegetable Varieties
If you’ve read my How to Plan your Vegetable Plot Parts 1 and 2, your plot will be ready so now all’s that’s left is to work out which vegetable variety to choose. How to choose a Vegetable Variety There are hundreds of vegetable varieties to choose from so where do you look first? And…
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Leek (Spring Onions) Harvest in Early April
By now in April, Leeks should have fattened up enough to start harvesting. Ours seem a little behind on the fattening up stage so we have left them in the garden and added some multipurpose compost mulch around the top of the stems in March to give them a bit of a nutrients boost. We…
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Sowing Sunflower Seeds with Children
Get growing with your children this Easter by sowing some Sunflower seeds. It’s extremely easy to do, all you need is a bit of soil from the garden or compost, a plastic tub or yogurt pot and some sunflower seeds. We also scattered some seeds onto the flower beds as my daughter got a bit…
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Sowing Sweet Pepper and Chilli Pepper Seeds in March
Monty Don from BBC Gardeners World has beaten me to it this year and sowed his chilli Pepper seeds on Friday 19th March. If you didn’t see it, it was a brilliant and inspiring episode, watch it on catch up on the BBC iPlayer. Gardeners world will be following the progress of their chilli peppers…
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Seed Sowing on the Spring Equinox – March 20th
Today was a cold and cloudy day, 9 degrees centigrade. My daughter found her first ladybird of the year today, a six spotted one which sat clinging to a blossom bud on our newly planted apple tree last year. We don’t often see ladybirds but we intend on trying to encourage them into our garden…
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Vegetable Seeds to Sow in March
Some of you eager beavers (an English saying for being quick off the mark) might have already started sowing your seeds as the weather has become milder in recent days. However a word of caution here. There are still frosts and we may not be out of Winter totally yet which could still kill tender…
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