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Yellow Leaves & White Spot Leaf Problems for Courgettes and Pumpkins
Courgettes, Squash and Pumpkins have giant leaves, which unfortunately makes them vulnerable to a range of leaf diseases. If leaf symptoms are spotted early, you might be able to save the plant. Quick Signs to Look for: Here’s some of the Leaf Diseases that I’ve had this year: 1.Yellowing Leaves Yellowing leaves range from yellowing…
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Part 5 – Mini Melons Harvest Themselves
There should definitely be a warning of a crash mat being required and it is so true what they say about Mini Melons harvesting themselves. Harvest themselves? How do they do that? When Mini Melons are ready for harvest, they drop off the vine and harvest themselves! These means you have to keep on eye…
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Sow, Grow & Harvest August 2024 – Growing Diary
August 2024 Weather Daylight Hours in August in UK: 14 Hours. August has definitely been the month for harvesting. It hasn’t been especially hot, mostly maintaining 21 to 24 degrees centigrade with a few hotter days, one day hit 32 degrees C. We also didn’t have any rainfall for a whole month and then some…
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Vegetables to Sow & Plant for Autumn & Winter
In August, your vegetable beds are packed with growing vegetables and the harvest season is here. You finally feel like you can take your foot off the accelerator pedal and enjoy the fruits and vegetables of your hard labour and the summer, now it has arrived. However if you do a little bit of planning…
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Holidays are Coming, Tis the Season for Xmas Potatoes
Imagine sitting down to the dinner table at Christmas, with your homegrown potatoes roasted in the oven and on the dinner plate? It’s so fulfilling that you will have achieved growing these potatoes (started in late summer). Your family will be overjoyed with smiles as they can’t wait to try your freshly harvested potatoes and…
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Part 4 – Top Tips on Caring for your Mini Melons
Mini Melons are an absolute delight to grow and surprisingly very low maintenance, once you have your support system up and running to hold the weight of the mini melons. If you’d like to know what type of Mini Melons you can grow in the UK, read Part 1 – Mini Melons – What Varieties…
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The Humble Chive Plant – Harvest Free Seeds Next Year
Chives, have you ever tried growing them? They are the unsung heroes of the vegetable garden and the gift that keeps on giving! All About Chives Chives are part of the allium family and are a perennial which means they can live in the ground for up to 3 years or more. Chives can be…
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Cooking with Yellow Ball Courgettes – Beef & Rice
I love cooking and I admit I never follow a recipe properly. I always think it needs more of that or less of this. I’ve not always been good at cooking, when I was teenager, I used to burn everything and my mother use to say you’ll have to marry a man that can cook…
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A Colourful Harvest Palette – Tomatoes & Sweet Peppers
‘Tangerine Dream’ Sweet Pepper, you did not let me down! What a stunning bright Orange bitesized sweet pepper. Tangerine Dream Sweet Peppers grow pointing to the sky instead of hang down like long peppers. They remind me of chilli peppers. They turn from green to a light orange and then a bright orange. They are…
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