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Can you Sow & Grow Sweetcorn in Raised Beds?
Sweetcorn has been growing successfully in my raised beds for the past 3 years. Yes, you can grow your own Sweetcorn in Raised Beds in a small garden. Sowing Sweetcorn It’s May in the east of the UK and time to sow Sweetcorn and I’ve got to be quick and sow it before the end…
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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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Grow Your Own Sweetcorn Cobs – July Update
There is nothing quite like homegrown Sweetcorn. There simply isn’t! As a child, I didn’t even like sweetcorn that much (but I’d always had it in a can as a child) and I hadn’t even realised how sweetcorn was grown until I watched movies when I was young. Fast forward 25 years and I have…
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How to Plant Out Sweetcorn into a Raised Bed with Video
Sweetcorn is one of the best vegetables to grow for yourself. Sweetcorn tastes so much more juicer, sweet and fresh when you harvest from your garden compared with the corn on the cobs from supermarkets. Difficulty Growing Level: Easy Sweetcorn is surprisingly easy to grow because they do not need much attention. Recap on Sowing…
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Early May Updates – Vegetable Growing Progress
There’s has been lots of progress this past month, here’s some of my highlights on my vegetable plot and greenhouse. The greenhouse has been great in the cold, windy and wetter weather. Seeds have still been germinating in approximately 7 to 10 days. And there’s still room in the greenhouse which is great. Yesterday the…
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And Finally we have Sweetcorn to Harvest
If you are a regular to my blog, you may have read my Sweetcorn – Try, Try Again post. We didn’t have much success growing sweetcorn the last time we tried. This year, with the new vegetable garden we put in late in the year, we had no choice but to buy plug plants to…
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August in the Vegetable Garden
It’s mid August, I haven’t planted any vegetables since the Sweetcorn in July. In the Summer months, I like to sit back and enjoy the garden, enjoy the harvests and enjoy watching the plants and wildlife flourish. All the hard work, sowing seeds and caring for plants in Spring has paid off as the vegetable…
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July – Vegetable Garden Update – Sweetcorn, Sunflowers, Strawberries, Squash.
The vegetable garden is in full bloom and everything is going well. Due to all the rain we have been having, there has been no need to put the watering system or use the water from the waterbutts, luckily it has all fallen from the sky so far. Here’s a picture of the vegetable garden…
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Sweetcorn – Try, Try, Try again
This year is the first time I have grown Sweetcorn. There has been mixed results and I am disappointed but sometimes that’s the way it goes, you win some, you loose some. The best thing with vegetable growing is that you can always try, try, try again. I only have two seeds that germinated out…
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Week 2 in June – Vegetable Planting Progress
It’s still hot hot hot in Essex, UK this week and lots of progress has been made in the Vegetable Garden this week. All the plants are looking very green and abundant. Walkthrough Video for Week 2 in June Updates in the Raised Beds Small Tomato Plants Planted Out So I’m risking it, the tomatoes…
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