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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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Growing Butternut Squash in a Large Pot & Harvest 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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And Finally… The Italian Job – Tomato Harvest in Late August
And finally the Italian beefsteak tomatoes – Variety: Costoluto Genovese have gone red. They have been in the greenhouse and due to the stems getting so heavy they fell over so they have now all been harvested. Update on the Greenhouse Growbag watering system In May, I posted – My Tomato Growing Setup about my…
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Yellow, Orange, Red – Colour Changing Sweet Rams Horn Peppers
The 6 months care and attention needed to look after the Sweet Peppers is finally paying off and they are rewarding plants by giving a fantastic colour change display from yellow to orange to deep red. The Sweet Peppers I’m growing this year were started off in a seed tray indoors sown in February. Sweet…
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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…
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August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, squash, courgettes, Carrots, tomatoes.
The August vegetable harvests just keep coming week by week and they are truly colourful. There is such a variety of vegetables and fruit to pick and create some magic in the kitchen with. Garlic Butter Vegetables Last night we picked a ball courgette, baby yellow squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn and spinach. I made a garlic…
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August is definitely the month for Harvests – Blackberries, strawberries, Baby squash, ball courgettes, Carrots, French beans, spinach, tomatoes.
The August vegetable harvests just keep coming week by week and they are truly colourful. There is such a variety of vegetables and fruit to pick and create some magic in the kitchen with. Garlic Butter Vegetables Last night we picked a ball courgette, baby yellow squash, tomatoes, sweetcorn and spinach. I made a garlic…
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