Tag: Kale

  • 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…

  • Vegetable Garden Update – January – Cauliflower, Kale, Fennel, Spring Cabbage, Carrots.

    Vegetable Garden Update – January – Cauliflower, Kale, Fennel, Spring Cabbage, Carrots.

    The Weather Like every good gardener, I like to talk about the weather and keep up to date what it’s going to do next. If you are on X / Twitter social media and live in London or the Southeast of England, UK, follow Daniel or The Snow Dreamer as he gets the weather right.…

  • Vegetable Garden Update – January – Cauliflower, Kale, Fennel, Cabbage, Carrots.

    Vegetable Garden Update – January – Cauliflower, Kale, Fennel, Cabbage, Carrots.

    The Weather Like every good gardener, I like to talk about the weather and keep up to date what it’s going to do next. The usual weather in the UK in January is cold, frost with periods of rain. We have had rather a mix of lots of rain, a few storms, high winds, a…

  • Autumn Vegetable Harvest – Pumpkins, Petty Pan Squash, Butternut & Spring Greens.

    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,…

  • Late Summer – August sowings Update for Autumn & Winter vegetables – planting out in raised beds.

    Late Summer – August sowings Update for Autumn & Winter vegetables – planting out in raised beds.

    It’s been a few weeks since I sowed the late summer sowings. The Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, kale, spring cabbage and fennel are now seedlings and ready to be planted out in my raised beds. However anything from the Brassica family i.e Cauliflower, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage and Kale still needs to be planted under netting in…

  • August Sowings Update – Planting Winter Veg in the Ground

    August Sowings Update – Planting Winter Veg in the Ground

    It’s been a few weeks since I sowed the late summer sowings. The Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, kale, spring cabbage and fennel are now seedlings and ready to be planted out in my raised beds. However anything from the Brassica family i.e Cauliflower, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage and Kale still needs to be planted under netting in…

  • Seeds to Sow in Now and August for a Autumn and Winter Harvest

    Seeds to Sow in Now and August for a Autumn and Winter Harvest

    As we are enjoying the vegetable garden in all its glory, I sometimes forget what happens next and miss the time to sow the Autumn and Winter vegetables. Not this year! I’ve decided what I am sowing and here’s my list, I’ll be sowing these seeds at the end of July and in August. Autumn…

  • Jobs in the Vegetable Garden in February

    Jobs in the Vegetable Garden in February

    Last weekend was the beginning of the better weather for the UK, so I was out in the garden giving the vegetable plot a spring clean and my husband was clearing out our shed so we have a bit of room for my new potting bench from Aldi (bought last year) so we can sow…