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Slow Growing Vegetables to Sow Together in one Raised Bed
Slow-growing vegetables like leeks and parsnips can be sown together in one raised bed to maximize space and enjoy a great harvest in autumn. These root vegetables and alliums thrive from March to October, offering a low-maintenance solution for gardeners eager to extend their growing season.
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Winter Vegetable Garden – Video Walkthrough in December
It’s nearly Christmas and time to dig up the parsnips for Christmas Dinner! I hope you have some homegrown vegetables for your dinner as well, if not, there’s always next year! Today is the day after the Winter Solstice. It is a typical winters day, wintery bitter cold from the wind but the sunshine is…
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Harvest a Leek with Me
The Big Reveal The big reveal of digging your harvest out of the ground never stops being exciting. Your Leeks have endured: We wait patiently for approximately 7 months to harvest a Leek and this is the satisfying moment where we get to dig them out of their snug ground. The Reward Every vegetable harvested…
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Can I Eat My Leeks? – Identifying Common Leek Diseases
Have you found spots or patches on your Leeks? Can you still eat your Leeks? Don’t dig them up and throw them away yet! Let’s take a look at a few common diseases of Leeks to see whether you can still take your leeks to the dinner table. Leek Rust It’s November in the Vegetable…
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October 2024 – Seeds, Veg & Harvest Squash – Timeline
October 2024 Weather Daylight Hours in October in UK: 9 Hours and 55 minutes. Find out your daylight hours by Town in the UK. Weather in October 24: Very wet with consistent rain for two weeks. Foggy mornings. Very Mild with temperatures approx 15 degrees centigrade. My rudbeckia’s are still flowering in the last week…
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Lovely Lush Leeks Harvest
This is the first year I have actually grown Leeks from seed so this harvest is a real achievement! My Leeks have gone from looking like blades of grass as seedlings to fattened white stems over the course of seven months. Here’s my Journey with Leeks: Leeks were sown in Root Trainers, these are deep…
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Sow, Grow & Harvest in September 2024 – Timeline
September 2024 Weather Daylight Hours in September in UK: 11 Hours and 39 minutes. Find out your daylight hours by Town in the UK. Weather in September 24: Very Mild with temperatures approx 20 degrees centigrade for the first few weeks, with thunderstorms and rain in the third week. Temperatures taking a tumble in the…
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How to Plant Out Leeks in a Raised Bed with Video
May is the time to Plant Out your Leeks so they have enough time to fatten up for the winter. Top 3 Growing Conditions for Leeks Leeks are quite easy to grow but they do need the following 3 things: How to Plant Out Leek Plants in a Raised Bed with Video 📋 You will…
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Musselburgh Leek Harvest in February
Back in August 2022, we planted our Leek plug plants out into our new raised beds. We have been harvesting the smaller leeks from December and then the ground was frozen so it has been difficult to harvest anything. It’s now February and I’m thinking ahead to Spring thinking we are going to need the…
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Growing Garlic with Onions and Leeks
It’s mid October in the UK, which is a great time to start planting your Garlic. Garlic can be planted from September to March depending on what variety is grown. Garlic is great as a filler for your Leek and Onions beds as any plants that didn’t make it can be replaced with a garlic…
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