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Early May 2024 – Vegetable Garden Update – Garlic, Onions, Leek, Broad Beans & Radish
Here’s my Vegetable Garden Plan for Year 2024. My plan is a work in progress and I’m always changing things about. I had too many Onions this year and couldn’t bear to part with any of them so I have placed the second lot of 50 onions (grown in cell trays) in the ‘Squash’ section…
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How to Plant Onion Sets in the Ground that have been grown in Cell Trays
My Onion sets were planted in cell trays in the second week of March. One month later, in Mid April, they are now ready to be planted out in a raised beds. See my article: 🧅 How to Start Growing Onions in wet weather in Cell trays + Video. This year in Mid April, the…
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Growing Broad Beans – Part 3 – How To Sow, Grow and Harvest Broad Beans – Free PDF Checklist
I know how daunting it can be when you are a beginning vegetable grower and you don’t know where to start. I was that beginner a few years ago. This is why I have created the How to Sow, Grow and Harvest Broad Beans Checklist to help you through the sowing and growing stages with…
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Broad Beans – Part 3 – How To Grow Checklist for Beginners – Free PDF
I know how daunting it can be when you are a beginning vegetable grower and you don’t know where to start. I was that beginner a few years ago. This is why I have created the How to Sow, Grow and Harvest Broad Beans Checklist to help you through the sowing and growing stages with…
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Why are my Tomatoes not going red? 3 Top Tips to get Tomatoes to turn Red
Sometimes it feels like a lifetime waiting for tomatoes to ripen to red especially when they were sown in January or February and now it’s Late July and you can’t wait any longer! However all hope is not lost, there are 3 things you can do start the process of turning green tomatoes red. 3…
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My Tomato Growing setup in a Greenhouse with a watering system
Last week my Vine Tomato plants – Variety: Costoluto Genovese where looking strong and tall and ready to go into the grow bags for their final positioning. I have been researching methods of growing tomatoes in a greenhouse as the difference from growing outside, is that they will need more water due to the soil…
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Interesting Vegetables – Growing Dwarf Borlotto Beans
I have wanted to grow Borlotto beans for years so this year when I saw there was a dwarf variety of Borlotto bean, I jumped at the chance to sow them in pots first and then squeeze them into my already packed vegetable plot. I grew these dwarf Borlotto beans especially for the beans in…
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Update – Keep Out Cabbage White Butterflies of my Brussels sprouts cage
In May of this year I wrote my original post in this trial, if you haven’t read it, see here: The Keep Out Cabbage White Butterfly Cage Trial. I’m now writing the update in August for this trial and it’s been an interesting few months. The cabbage white butterflies have been active in the garden…
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Flowers in the Vegetable Garden attract wildlife
I keep saying I’m not very good at growing flowers, vegetables and now fruit seems to be my thing. However in the vegetables garden this summer, there seems to be flowers everywhere. Marigolds These orange and red coloured flowers have been a hit with hoverflies, resting places for honey bees and bumble bees and other…
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August in the Vegetable Garden
It’s mid August, I haven’t planted any vegetables since the Sweetcorn in July. In the Summer months, I like to sit back and enjoy the garden, enjoy the harvests and enjoy watching the plants and wildlife flourish. All the hard work, sowing seeds and caring for plants in Spring has paid off as the vegetable…
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