Tag: seed sowing

  • Vegetable Seeds to Sow in October & GYO Halloween Speedy Leaf Bowl

    Vegetable Seeds to Sow in October & GYO Halloween Speedy Leaf Bowl

    You may be surprised to know that there are vegetable seeds you can sow in October. Overwintering Vegetables Most of the seeds and bulbs planted in October are to be overwintered which means to survive the winter and to be harvested in Spring. Vegetables to Harvest this year If you are looking for quick harvests…

  • Vegetables To Sow & Plant in September

    Vegetables To Sow & Plant in September

    In the UK, September seems to be a mixture of a last minute Indian summer and autumn trying to push in as well. There’s still a few things you can sow and plant in September. By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” –…

  • Vegetables to Sow in August & Bulbs to Pre-Order

    Vegetables to Sow in August & Bulbs to Pre-Order

    It’s August and there’s still time to sow Vegetables to eat before Winter in December and there’s still time to sow seeds to bag a Spring Harvest. Also now is the time to Pre-order your Onion Sets & Garlic Online (if you are in the UK) ready to plant in November to Harvest July &…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Oh Balls! I’m Growing Courgette Balls

    Oh Balls! I’m Growing Courgette Balls

    I grow Ball Courgettes every year, they are round instead of the normal long shaped courgettes. I love the ball round courgettes as they form on compact plants and they look stunningly unusual in the vegetable garden. A Ball courgette plant can form up to 3 or 4 courgette balls on one plant at one…

  • Vegetable Growing Timeline – April

    For Daily Vegetable Garden Updates Follow Me on Twitter / X @justmetraceyb Here’s my Profile on Twitter / X: April’s Weather The weather has been unusually cold and it was very wet at the beginning April in the east of the UK. The daylight hours are now approaching 15 hours a day however there has…

  • How to Plant Onion Sets in the Ground that have been grown in Cell Trays

    How to Plant Onion Sets in the Ground that have been grown in Cell Trays

    My Onion sets were planted in cell trays in the second week of March. One month later, in Mid April, they are now ready to be planted out in a raised beds. See my article: 🧅 How to Start Growing Onions in wet weather in Cell trays + Video. This year in Mid April, the…

  • Most Popular Seed Sowing Month – Vegetable Seeds l’ll be Sowing in April

    Most Popular Seed Sowing Month – Vegetable Seeds l’ll be Sowing in April

    April is a bumper seed sowing month. Every weekend is packed with a number of vegetable seeds to get sowing in the greenhouse or direct into the soil outdoors. Temperatures have warmed up In April, the outdoor temperatures should have warmed up, the soil temperatures have warmed up and the overnight temperatures should now be…

  • Pick of the Veg Crops – Tomatoes – Part 1 – Origins,  Nutrition & Reasons to Grow

    Pick of the Veg Crops – Tomatoes – Part 1 – Origins, Nutrition & Reasons to Grow

    Origins Tomatoes are originally from a South America, Central America and Mexico. They arrived in Europe in 16th century from the Spanish but people didn’t like them and they only became popular in the UK in the 18th Century. Other Names for Tomato Tomatoes were originally called Tomatl in Aztec times and then change over…