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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…
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Part 4 – How to Plant Out Broad Beans into a Raised Bed with Video
If you have been using my Free PDF Broad Bean Growing Checklist and have sown your seeds and they have germinated. You may now be ready to plant out your Broad Beans in a Raised bed. You will Need: How to Plant out Broad Beans in your Raised Bed How to Plant out Broad Bean…
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Part 2 – How to Sow Tomato Seeds with short Sowing Video
Tomatoes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. so why not try sowing tomatoes this year. Sow along with me – I’m sowing… Tomato Variety: Cherrola F1 – red cherry tomato from MoreVeg.co.uk Tomato Variety: Orange Cherry – orange cherry tomato from MoreVeg.co.uk When to Sow Tomatoes Greenhouse Tomatoes – Sow: Late February to…
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Potting On Sweet Peppers – Napia (early red) with Video
The red Sweet Peppers – ‘Napia’ which are an early variety from Real Seeds, had really put a growth spurt on compared to their sweet pepper neighbours in the cell tray ‘Tangerine Dream’. At 6 leaves, the red sweet peppers were definitely ready for a larger pot and some fresh compost. How to Pot On…
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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…
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Growing Spring Planting Garlic in Mid March – Is it too late to grow?
I have not planted Garlic in March before, I usually plant it in November (Growing Garlic with Leeks and Onions) however this year we have finally run out of our Garlic stores so it’s time to plant some more. I’ve bought the following Garlic variety Garcua from the garden centre and it’s also available online…
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How to Start Growing Onions in wet weather in cell trays with Planting Video
Last year our Onions rotted in our Raised Beds. It was just too wet constantly outdoors so I don’t want the same thing happening this year. I’m determined to harvest some onions this year so I need to try a different approach. This year I am going to start our onion sets off in a…
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Sowing and Growing Sweet Peppers – Part 1 – Origins, Types and Nutrition
What is a Sweet Pepper? A Sweet pepper is a pepper with no heat, that is sweet or fruity in flavour. Sweet Peppers are from the capsicum family of which chilli peppers also belong to. A Bell Pepper is zero on the scoville heat scale and a Sweet Pepper is 1-500 on the scoville heat…
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February – Buy & Chit your Seed Potatoes & How To Plant Potatoes
Growing Potatoes in a container is one of the easiest ways of getting into growing your own vegetables. What does First Early, Second Early and Maincrop mean? First Earlies Plant: Mid March to Mid April. Harvest: Mid June to Mid July. These potatoes are the quickest growers they take 10-12 weeks (3 months) from planting…
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Growing Broad Beans – Part 3 – How To Sow, Grow and Harvest Broad Beans – Free PDF Checklist
I know how daunting it can be when you are a beginning vegetable grower and you don’t know where to start. I was that beginner a few years ago. This is why I have created the How to Sow, Grow and Harvest Broad Beans Checklist to help you through the sowing and growing stages with…
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