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Focus on September – Quick Growing Asian Greens
If you are looking for a different brand of edible leaf, (that’s more interesting than lettuce), try sowing Asian Greens this Autumn. They are green, red, spicy, serrated, large to frilly to round leaves, with a taste ranging from mild to pungent. These cool weather loving leafy greens are common in Asian Cuisine. You may…
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Why You Shouldn’t Sow Vegetables in Wet Weather (and What to Do Instead)
Thinking of sowing or digging after rain? Wet weather can cause waterlogged soil, seed rot, and compacted beds. Discover why you shouldn’t sow vegetables in wet soil and what to do instead for a healthy, thriving veg garden
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Challenge Brassica – Part 3 – Planting & Spacings for Brassica’s
It’s Planting time, here comes the fun bit. First things first, we need to check the spacing on the types of Brassica we are growing to check they have plenty of room to grow sideways and not bump into another plant. If your plants touch, then air doesn’t flow which means your plant could be…
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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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Challenge Brassica – Part 2 – Soil Replenishing & The No Dig Method
It’s hard to believe but Cabbage, Cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale and kohl Rabi all belong to the same family ‘Brassica Oleracea’. This means Wild Cabbage. Brassica’s are all leaves (apart from cauliflowers) and they need nitrogen in the soil and lots of it to form those rich in nutrients green leaves. These green leaves are…
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A Guide to Growing Onions from Sets – Free Ebook
So that’s right, I’ve finally written an ebook and this one’s about Onions! And there’s more exciting projects to come. My Ebook is all about Growing Onions from Sets. There’s no need to search the internet for ‘How to Grow Onions’, as all the information, planting details, growing tips, variety comparisons, pests and Diseases quick…
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Autumn Vegetable Garden – Video Walkthrough
It is September and Autumn is here. There is a visible shift in the Vegetable Garden in Autumn, the nights draw in, daylight hours reduce to 12 hours and growing slows down. There are the Autumn harvests to look forward to like the squashes and pumpkins that are fattening up or ripening. And the joy…
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Challenge Brassica – Part 1 – What’s The Challenge?
I think we ALL might have had enough of the Cabbage White Butterflies and/or caterpillars this year, decimating our brassica plants, but no, not me, nope, I’m nurturing a whole bunch of new brassica plug plants in the greenhouse. I love a challenge! You may think your plug plants are safe in the greenhouse, but…
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Part 5 – Mini Melons Harvest Themselves
There should definitely be a warning of a crash mat being required and it is so true what they say about Mini Melons harvesting themselves. Harvest themselves? How do they do that? When Mini Melons are ready for harvest, they drop off the vine and harvest themselves! These means you have to keep on eye…
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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.” –…
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