Tag: Grow Guide

  • 1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..

    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…

  • Growing Unusual Vegetables – Summer Squash – Petty Pan (Sow Apr-Early June & Harvest July onwards)

    Growing Unusual Vegetables – Summer Squash – Petty Pan (Sow Apr-Early June & Harvest July onwards)

    Summer squash is a unique shaped scalloped little vegetable and does not look anything like a butternut squash. It has a flying saucer shape to it and it can fit in the palm of your hand. They come in white, yellow and green. Summer squashes come in two types, Baby Squash also known as Petty…

  • Sowing Sweet Pepper Seeds Indoors in Mid February

    Sowing Sweet Pepper Seeds Indoors in Mid February

    I’ve been itching to start sowing my seeds this year and one of the first seeds to sow in Mid February are the Sweet Peppers. My Chosen Variety: Semaroh An Eastern European Sweet Pepper which is long and slim like a bulls horn. Measure to 16cm long and turns from green to red. They are…

  • I Love Peas and I want to grow them all year

    I Love Peas and I want to grow them all year

    I love growing peas and a few years ago I managed to grow them successionally for a few months during the spring and summer. This year I want to try and grow peas one variety after the other from sowings in early February to October which means I need a very early variety to start…

  • How to Pot on your Tomato Seedlings

    This guide will show you how to pot on your tomatoes. Once your tomato seedlings have 4 leaves, it’s time to pot them into fresh compost so they can continue growing ready to be planted out. You will need: 1. Fill your post with compost, not all the way to the top. 2. Using a…

  • Part 4 – How to Pot on your Tomato Seedlings

    This guide will show you how to pot on your tomatoes. Once your tomato seedlings have 4 leaves, it’s time to pot them into fresh compost so they can continue growing ready to be planted out. You will need: 1. Fill your post with compost, not all the way to the top. 2. Using a…

  • How to Plan Your Vegetable Plot – Part 3 – Choosing Vegetable Varieties

    If you’ve read my How to Plan your Vegetable Plot Parts 1 and 2, your plot will be ready so now all’s that’s left is to work out which vegetable variety to choose. How to choose a Vegetable Variety There are hundreds of vegetable varieties to choose from so where do you look first? And…

  • Sowing Sunflower Seeds with Children

    Get growing with your children this Easter by sowing some Sunflower seeds. It’s extremely easy to do, all you need is a bit of soil from the garden or compost, a plastic tub or yogurt pot and some sunflower seeds. We also scattered some seeds onto the flower beds as my daughter got a bit…

  • How to Plan your Vegetable Plot – Part 2 – What veg goes where?

    The weather plays a huge part in growing vegetables as some vegetables love the sunshine and some can live in the shade so it’s very important to take notes on where the sunshine hits your plot in the morning, at midday and in the afternoon. The way sun hits your garden or plot will also…

  • How to Plan your Vegetable Plot – Part 1 – What to grow & where to grow it.

    There are always lots of decisions when it comes to planning your own plot. Whether you have vegetables in the ground and what to plant next or if you are starting with a new plot, here’s how to start planning your own Vegetable Plot. 1. What do you want to grow? Some people might think…