Tag: vegetable varieties

  • Part 3 – How to Choose a Tomato Variety to Grow

    Part 3 – How to Choose a Tomato Variety to Grow

    There are more than 10,000 Tomato varieties worldwide! Tomato World Records There are a number of word records broken with Tomatoes. 1. Tallest Tomato Plant – according to the Guinness World of Records, a UK company in October 1999 reached a height of 19.8 meters (65 ft). 2. Most Cherry Tomatoes grown on a single…

  • Operation – Brussels Sprouts to the Dinner Table Plan

    Operation – Brussels Sprouts to the Dinner Table Plan

    Every vegetable grower has one, a difficult vegetable to grow. I’ve had more failures with growing Brussels Sprouts than any other vegetable. Yet I still pick myself up and try growing them again. This year is no exception, I am determined to find a way of actually getting some Brussels Sprouts on my dinner plate.…

  • Brussels Sprouts to the Dinner Table Plan

    Brussels Sprouts to the Dinner Table Plan

    Every vegetable grower has one, a difficult vegetable to grow. I’ve had more failures with growing Brussels Sprouts than any other vegetable. Yet I still pick myself up and try growing them again. This year is no exception, I am determined to find a way of actually getting some Brussels Sprouts on my dinner plate.…

  • Sweet Peppers ‘Tangerine Dream’ and ‘Napia’ have Germinated!

    Sweet Peppers ‘Tangerine Dream’ and ‘Napia’ have Germinated!

    I was so happy with my sweet peppers last year that this year I have upgraded my cell trays (as last years sowings were started in a mushroom tray) and I started sowing my Sweet Peppers indoors in these: Windowsill Cell Trays with Lids from Amazon. These cell trays have been ideal and come with…

  • Yellow, Orange, Red – Colour Changing Sweet Rams Horn Peppers

    Yellow, Orange, Red – Colour Changing Sweet Rams Horn Peppers

    The 6 months care and attention needed to look after the Sweet Peppers is finally paying off and they are rewarding plants by giving a fantastic colour change display from yellow to orange to deep red. The Sweet Peppers I’m growing this year were started off in a seed tray indoors sown in February. Sweet…

  • 1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..

    1 Courgette, 2 Courgette, 3 Courgette and more..

    It’s certainly been a bumper year for courgettes, I thought I’d never say this but when do they stop?! I thought that 3 ball courgettes per plant on two plants were just enough to deal with, my husband decided to give the plants a feed with Tomato-rite and two weeks later, we have more to…

  • Happy New Year! Happy New Plot

    Happy New Year! Happy New Plot

    Wishing you all a Happy New year and a happy new set of vegetables and harvests this year! Happy Birthday to my blog – Sow, Grow and Harvest it is two years old this month! I started writing about my adventures in growing vegetables two years ago (I don’t know where the time goes) as…

  • How to Plan Your Vegetable Plot – Part 3 – Choosing Vegetable Varieties

    How to Plan Your Vegetable Plot – Part 3 – Choosing Vegetable Varieties

    If you’ve read my How to Plan your Vegetable Plot Parts 1 and 2, your plot will be ready so now all’s that’s left is to work out which vegetable variety to choose. How to choose a Vegetable Variety There are hundreds of vegetable varieties to choose from so where do you look first? And…

  • Feeling Hot Hot Hot, Chilli Peppers to buy for Valentines Day

    Feeling Hot Hot Hot, Chilli Peppers to buy for Valentines Day

    Valentine’s Day is on its way again and what a perfect time to buy your loved one or loved friend some chilli seeds or a chilli gift set to warm their cockles. There is a chilli out there for everyone, big ones, small ones, long ones, short ones, low heat up to very hot heat.…