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  • Challenge Brassica – Part 3 – Planting & Spacings for Brassica’s

    Challenge Brassica – Part 3 – Planting & Spacings for Brassica’s

    It’s Planting time, here comes the fun bit. First things first, we need to check the spacing on the types of Brassica we are growing to check they have plenty of room to grow sideways and not bump into another plant. If your plants touch, then air doesn’t flow which means your plant could be…

  • Vegetable Seeds to Sow in October & GYO Halloween Speedy Leaf Bowl

    Vegetable Seeds to Sow in October & GYO Halloween Speedy Leaf Bowl

    You may be surprised to know that there are vegetable seeds you can sow in October. Overwintering Vegetables Most of the seeds and bulbs planted in October are to be overwintered which means to survive the winter and to be harvested in Spring. Vegetables to Harvest this year If you are looking for quick harvests…

  • Sow, Grow & Harvest in September 2024 – Timeline

    Sow, Grow & Harvest in September 2024 – Timeline

    September 2024 Weather Daylight Hours in September in UK: 11 Hours and 39 minutes. Find out your daylight hours by Town in the UK. Weather in September 24: Very Mild with temperatures approx 20 degrees centigrade for the first few weeks, with thunderstorms and rain in the third week. Temperatures taking a tumble in the…

  • Challenge Brassica – Part 2 – Soil Replenishing & The No Dig Method

    It’s hard to believe but Cabbage, Cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale and kohl Rabi all belong to the same family ‘Brassica Oleracea’. This means Wild Cabbage. Brassica’s are all leaves (apart from cauliflowers) and they need nitrogen in the soil and lots of it to form those rich in nutrients green leaves. These green leaves are…

  • A Guide to Growing Onions from Sets – Free Ebook

    A Guide to Growing Onions from Sets – Free Ebook

    So that’s right, I’ve finally written an ebook and this one’s about Onions! And there’s more exciting projects to come. My Ebook is all about Growing Onions from Sets. There’s no need to search the internet for ‘How to Grow Onions’, as all the information, planting details, growing tips, variety comparisons, pests and Diseases quick…

  • Autumn Vegetable Garden – Video Walkthrough

    Autumn Vegetable Garden – Video Walkthrough

    It is September and Autumn is here. There is a visible shift in the Vegetable Garden in Autumn, the nights draw in, daylight hours reduce to 12 hours and growing slows down. There are the Autumn harvests to look forward to like the squashes and pumpkins that are fattening up or ripening. And the joy…

  • Challenge Brassica – Part 1 – What’s The Challenge?

    Challenge Brassica – Part 1 – What’s The Challenge?

    I think we ALL might have had enough of the Cabbage White Butterflies and/or caterpillars this year, decimating our brassica plants, but no, not me, nope, I’m nurturing a whole bunch of new brassica plug plants in the greenhouse. I love a challenge! You may think your plug plants are safe in the greenhouse, but…

  • Part 5 – Mini Melons Harvest Themselves

    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…

  • Vegetables To Sow & Plant in September

    Vegetables To Sow & Plant in September

    In the UK, September seems to be a mixture of a last minute Indian summer and autumn trying to push in as well. There’s still a few things you can sow and plant in September. By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” –…

  • Vegetables to Sow & Plant for Autumn & Winter

    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…