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July Harvests – Peach, Blackberry, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers & Cucumbers
July is another month for harvests. This year I have been enjoying the fruit as well as our vegetables. I am particularly enjoying the following harvests: 1. Lettuce ‘Outrageous’ Started Harvesting: 13 July & ongoing. This lettuce is a cos type, low growing with a tight oval shaped leaves. The best thing is the colour,…
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Keeping the ‘Tangerine Dream’ Alive! – Sweet Peppers are Changing Colour
It’s early July and it’s that time of the year again when the magic happens, THE magical colour changing event 🎉, this is when it’s time for early varieties of Sweet Pepper to change from Green to reddy brown to Red (or from green to any other colour like yellow, orange, purple, black depending on…
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Growing Pumpkins – Let’s Get Ready to Ramble!
This year I am growing a medium size Pumpkin variety called Bellatrix F1 and I’m quite excited to see if it will get to a medium size and how long the vines will be! Pumpkin Variety I’m Growing: Bellatrix F1 I bought the seeds from MoreVeg.co.uk as they are reliable in germination and a very…
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Part 6 – How to Harvest your Broad Bean Pods with Video + FREE PDF Timeline
It’s been a great year for Broad Beans! If you have grown them for the first time this year and followed my FREE PDF Broad Bean Growing Checklist, you’ll know that they should be ready for harvesting about Mid June onwards. What do Broad Bean pods look like when they are ready to harvest? The…
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Radish Harvest – Sow to Harvest in 4 Weeks
Radishes were the first vegetable I decided to grow, when I first started growing my own vegetables. I chose to start with Radish because it is the easiest vegetable to grow, they are so quick to harvest in just 4 weeks. I still grow Radishes today for that very reason. I believe everyone can grow…
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Vegetable Garden Plan 2024 & May Growings
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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We have Autumn Cauliflowers!
I am so excited to announce my first ever 3 Cauliflowers grown from seed. I spotted them this morning, as the netting came off the Brassica cage a few days ago in the high winds. I’ve kept the netting off so I can check for slugs with the wet weather. They have made my January!…
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Autumn Vegetable Harvest – Pumpkins, Petty Pan Squash, Butternut & Spring Greens.
I love Autumn with its leaf colour changing charms and it’s dreamy, cosy time when the blankets and gloves come out as it’s a little bit ‘nippy’ outside. Our Blueberry plants are giving us a great red leaf autumn display which looks great in the garden. It’s the first time, in my vegetable growing history,…
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Growing Baby Bear Pumpkins
I have been growing pumpkins for the first time this year, we sowed them in May and it’s now early October and we have a success with Pumpkin ‘Baby Bear’. We now have two baby pumpkins in our raised bed from one plant. One is still unripe and turning from green to orange. The other…
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Growing Butternut Squashes in a Large Patio Pot & Harvesting Top Tips
This year has been a great year for squashes and pumpkins. Another new vegetable for this year was a Butternut Squash as I’ve not ever grown one before. We had no room in the raised beds so decided to experiment to see if two plants would grow in a large patio pot instead. The plants…
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