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Your Vegetable Sowing Schedule for March
This is your reminder to sow some seeds in March, before the popular sowing month begins next month in April. If you are a bit overwhelmed with where to begin, then here is a March Sowing Plan just for you. There’s a Free Download in PDF format to keep on your phone. Start sowing in…
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How does a Seed Germinate? A Guide for Beginners
A Seed is a small or tiny packet of a shoot (stem & 2 leaves), roots and food energy which enables it to burst into action when activated by water and oxygen. The seed needs to be planted in compost that is wet so that the seed coat can take in water to swell up…
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Sow Onion Seeds with Me – Video Release
Hello, I am excited to announce my very first Seed Sow Along video and my very first video with me in it! So enjoy! My aim is to show that we all have to Start somewhere and to just Start Now when trying do new things including Vegetable Growing and sowing seeds for the first…
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How to Create a Simple Seed Sowing Setup Indoors
If you haven’t started sowing seeds indoors on a windowsill or under a grow light, in the next few months you may soon be. Especially if the itch to get sowing becomes too much to deal with during January. The Winter season seems to have shifted in the UK from December to January & February…
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Parsnips – Sow, Grow, Harvest, Store & Cook
Parsnips are a stable, nutritious winter vegetable and were used in Europeans diets until the Potato came over from America. Europeans then shared Parsnips by taking them to America in like a swap with gratitude. What is a Parsnip? A parsnip is very similar to a carrot and is related to the carrot and parsley…
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Plant Shallots with Me in November
Growing your own vegetables means that you can harvest gourmet quality vegetables, fresh from your garden. Shallots are considered gourmet because of their depth of flavour and this lends itself well in cooking. Top restaurants and chefs use shallots in their dishes. A shallot has a milder onion flavour with a hint of garlic. Are…
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Planting Elephant Garlic – Have you tried it?
That’s right Elephant Garlic. It is Garlic of Elephant proportions! I’m not joking either, ‘the cloves are big, wow’ exclaimed my daughter, age 5. If the cloves are big, how big are the bulbs?! I thought, well it’s time to plant them out into the ground to find out. I’m also planting normal size garlic…
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Christmas Potatoes – Are they ready to harvest yet?
Christmas potatoes are ready in 12 weeks or 3 months. Signs your Potatoes are a few weeks away from harvesting: Why are they called Christmas Potatoes, if they don’t last until Christmas? Christmas Potatoes are 1st or 2nd Early in type and their foliage does not like the cold or frost. This is why they…
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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…
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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…
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