Tag: July

  • Keeping the ‘Tangerine Dream’ Alive! – Sweet Peppers are Changing Colour

    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…

  • 5 Symptoms that your Plant is Feeling Stressed & How to Make them feel better.

    5 Symptoms that your Plant is Feeling Stressed & How to Make them feel better.

    The weather has been cooler this year with periods of rain and lack of long periods of full sun. These conditions are fantastic for cool loving vegetables like lettuce, carrots, parsnips, spinach. Lack of sunshine is not liked by courgettes, pumpkins or squash. How do I tell if my Vegetable Plant is feeling stressed? There…

  • Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July

    Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July

    There’s still time to start growing veg this year! Can’t decide what to grow? Let me give you a helping hand so you can sow the best seeds for July’s Summer Season. The Summer Holidays are coming up as well so if you need to keep the kids entertained, get them involved, heck, get the…

  • Growing Pumpkins – Let’s Get Ready to Ramble!

    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…

  • Grow Veg Challenge – Grow your Own Coleslaw

    Grow Veg Challenge – Grow your Own Coleslaw

    One of my Projects this year is to Grow my Own Coleslaw. This is quite an interesting project as there are three vegetables I need to be able to harvest at the same time in order to achieve making the coleslaw in July or August. What is Coleslaw? Coleslaw or Slaw in the UK is…

  • Why are my Tomatoes not going red? 3 Top Tips to get Tomatoes to turn Red

    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…

  • Let’s Grow Together – Weekly – Recipes for Vegetable Gluts

    Let’s Grow Together – Weekly – Recipes for Vegetable Gluts

    Welcome to Sow, Grow, Harvest’s weekly digital and social media great finds. I’ve been on the hunt for some great recipes to use up the vegetable harvest gluts in my vegetable garden at the moment and other recipes for vegetables I’ve not eaten before. Petty Pan (baby) Squash Recipes Oven Recipe Ginger spiced stuffed Petty…

  • July Harvest – Beans, Carrots, Kohl Rabi and first tomatoes

    July Harvest – Beans, Carrots, Kohl Rabi and first tomatoes

    Our vegetable harvests are weekly and our strawberries and blueberries are being picked daily. It’s Mid July and we are harvesting: Broccoli – Kabuki F1 The Broccoli has done really well since we have received lots of rain. It has been in a cage with environmesh netting since the end of May but only really…

  • Update 1 – Keep Out Cabbage White Butterflies of my Brussels sprouts cage

    Update 1 – 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…

  • Update – Keep Out Cabbage White Butterflies of my Brussels sprouts cage

    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…