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Think Like a Grower: What Your Plant Leaves are Trying to Tell You
Plants can’t speak but they do have the capacity to reveal clues about distress and discomfort they are feeling through their leaves. Plants are trying to tell you something through the dots, marks, colour and texture of their leaves. Plants are hoping you pick up on some tell-tale signs so you might be able to…
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Sowing Courgettes in April (Not May) is your ticket to an Earlier Harvest
Learn why sowing courgettes in April gives earlier, stronger crops in the UK. Discover when, how, and where to sow for the best results.
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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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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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Oh Balls! I’m Growing Courgette Balls
I grow Ball Courgettes every year, they are round instead of the normal long shaped courgettes. I love the ball round courgettes as they form on compact plants and they look stunningly unusual in the vegetable garden. A Ball courgette plant can form up to 3 or 4 courgette balls on one plant at one…
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1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..
It’s certainly been a bumper year for courgettes, I thought I’d never say this but when do they stop?! I thought that 3 ball courgettes per plant on two plants were just enough to deal with, my husband decided to give the plants a feed with Tomato-rite and two weeks later, we have more to…
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Interesting Vegetables: Growing Ball Courgettes – Green Striped Ball – Piccolo F1
The shape of these courgettes fascinates me and how they grow on the courgette plant. One of the best things about growing your own vegetables is the wide variety of shapes and different varieties you can grow yourself and not find in the shops. Why grow normal courgettes, when you can grow ball courgettes? A…
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