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5 Symptoms that your Plant is Feeling Stressed & How to Make them feel better.
The weather has been cooler this year with periods of rain and lack of long periods of full sun. These conditions are fantastic for cool loving vegetables like lettuce, carrots, parsnips, spinach. Lack of sunshine is not liked by courgettes, pumpkins or squash. How do I tell if my Vegetable Plant is feeling stressed? There…
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Growing Pumpkins – Let’s Get Ready to Ramble!
This year I am growing a medium size Pumpkin variety called Bellatrix F1 and I’m quite excited to see if it will get to a medium size and how long the vines will be! Pumpkin Variety I’m Growing: Bellatrix F1 I bought the seeds from MoreVeg.co.uk as they are reliable in germination and a very…
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What I have been Sowing, Growing & Harvesting in June 2024
Here’s the end of the month round up of what I have been Sowing, Growing and Harvesting in June. In the UK, June 2024 has been quite summery with 25 days out of 30 being sunny or cloudy. Temperature on average has been 19 degrees centigrade. Until the heatwave of 4 days at the end…
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Part 6 – How to Harvest your Broad Bean Pods with Video + FREE PDF Timeline
It’s been a great year for Broad Beans! If you have grown them for the first time this year and followed my FREE PDF Broad Bean Growing Checklist, you’ll know that they should be ready for harvesting about Mid June onwards. What do Broad Bean pods look like when they are ready to harvest? The…
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Strawberries – My leaves look like lace, what’s eating my strawberry leaves?
It’s June, it’s Strawberry harvesting season, and some pests want to butt into the harvest party like an uninvited guest! The latest pest on our Strawberry plants, have shredded the leaves leaving elongated oval shapes in the leaves. The strawberry leaves look like lace, so let’s look at what might be eating the leaves. Strawberry…
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Part 5 – How to Care for your Growing Tomatoes
My greenhouse grown tomatoes have been growing strongly although the outdoor grown tomatoes have been sulking a bit with the cold weather in Mid June! Let’s hope we get some sunshine and heat soon to turn these tomatoes red or orange or [insert your colour here]. I am growing: Greenhouse Tomatoes Are growing: Raised Bed…
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Coriander Glut
My two favourite herbs are coriander and basil. I use them a lot in cookery so it makes sense to grow quite a few plants. Sometimes all the plants are ready at the same time and there’s a Coriander Glut. Coriander Top Facts There’s still time to Sow Coriander! What is Coriander? It is a…
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Pest – Pigeons attacking Peas
I am new to this problem but Pigeons are attacking my Peas! A Wood Pigeons favourite vegetables are Peas, brassica family like cabbage leaves and broccoli leaves. They also like berries, currants and strawberries. Signs that Pigeons are attacking your Plants Solutions – How do I stop the Pigeons eating my Pea plants? The Pest…
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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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The Importance of Potting on Seedlings from a Small Pot to a Bigger Pot
About Mid May, there is a weekend whereby all I do is pot on all my seedlings. I would prefer it if I potted plants on a bit at a time as sometimes it’s very overwhelming to do it all at once, because I don’t know what to do first. The potting on job then…
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