Archive for the ‘Vegetable garden tips and advice.’ Category
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
If you’re anything like me you love sowing seeds. It’s a true gardeners delight to raise a plant from a seemingly lifeless husk right through to the point where it blooms, becomes edible or produces fruit. This is what horticulture is all about, whether raising summer bedding for your colourful designs or perhaps growing vegetables to yourself and your family.
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Selecting an Allotment plot?
Here are a few guidelines to help you out.
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Tags: Artificial shelter, aspect, Bindweed, Bishop Weed, Couch grass, direction of slope, Easterly aspect, Gout weed, loam soil, Nettles, Northerly aspect, Scutch grass, Selecting an Allotment, shelter, Southerly aspect, test for drainage, Westerly aspect, While Nettles
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
“Potatoes served at breakfast, at dinner served again; potatoes served at supper, forever and Amen!”
–Pennsylvania prayer.
The gardeners and farmers who had the foresight to plant their potatoes earlier this year have an interesting few weeks ahead of them.
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Tags: Colleen potatoes, harvest potatoes, harvesting potatoes, homegrown, how to dig potatoes, how to harvest potatoes, lifting potatoes, new potatoes, Orla potatoes, potato digging, potato harvest, potatoes, potatoes storage tips, spading fork, when to dig potatoes, when to harvest potatoes
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Have you heard of the movie “The bucket list”? It details the trip taken by two men who work their way through a list of things they wish to experience before they die. The “bucket list” in the title was a roster of things to do before the movies main character “kicks the bucket”.
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Here’s a handy list that I compiled in response to that eternal vegetable growing query that crops up as soon as spring arrives, “Am I too late to sow… (Insert vegetable of choice here)? (more…)
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
As a child, Easter meant one thing to me… Easter eggs.
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
In a previous post I wrote about preparing your window box for vegetable growing, the layering of composts and the use of bubble wrap to help reduce your need to water in summer.
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Last week I wrote about a solution to lack of space for growing salad vegetables faced by balcony and patio gardeners.
That was the window box vegetable garden.
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Living in the countryside with roughly a half an acre site for my planting experiments, I sometimes tend to forget there are many gardeners who are less space “fortunate”.
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
It all kicks off this month in the vegetable garden.
So have you got your gloves ready, your spade sharpened, and your special slug detecting goggles on?
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