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Raised Bed Plan 1 – The Lettuce, Veg & Herb Patchwork Garden

Posted on 22. May, 2012 by Tracey.

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Since my last blog post Sow Your Own Lettuce Patchwork Garden, I have been cultivating the idea for my patchwork raised garden bed in my head and adding bits to it as each rainy weekend passed. I couldn’t believe my luck last weekend when the sunshine finally arrived, the plan went onto the computer and [...]

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The Downside of Growing Veg in Wet Weather

Posted on 16. May, 2012 by Tracey.

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The main downside to growing vegetables in wet weather are slugs and snails. They thrive in wet conditions as it makes it easier for them to move around and then they take advantage of human error. Last week I proudly showed off my beetroot and lettuce seedlings in my deck planter, this week I’m now [...]

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Container Veg Week 2 – Speedy Lettuce & Beetroot Seedlings

Posted on 07. May, 2012 by Tracey.

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Following on from my post last week on Why you should grow vegetables in containers, this is an update of my first vegetable seed sowings which have grown in just 2 weeks, which is amazingly fast. With the heavy rain we have been having lately I wasn’t sure whether this would affect the grow speed [...]

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Why You Should Try Growing Vegetables in Containers

Posted on 03. May, 2012 by Tracey.

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Last year I grew French Beans in galvanised tall containers on my decking and blogged about their progress and gave top tips for getting the most out of your beans. Your comments and questions came flooding in with many of you asking for more blog posts on container vegetable gardening. As growing vegetables in containers [...]

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How To Collect Rainwater For Your Vegetable Garden

Posted on 26. Apr, 2012 by Tracey.

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For the past week, I have been holidaying in the Yorkshire Dales which was recommended to me through twitter on more than one occassion and has been broadcast on the successful ITV programe The Dales already in its second series. In the dales, the saying goes if it isn’t raining now it soon will be, [...]

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How to live with Cats and Rabbits but keep them off your Veg Garden

Posted on 18. Apr, 2012 by Tracey.

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This post has been written after a few twitter conversations on how to keep cats off your raised beds with @TheGaryDoherty and with Suzanne from @CottagesinDales on how to start a vegetable garden when you have wild rabbits. Keeping Cats Off the Veg Garden I live with two lovely cats who enjoy the garden almost [...]

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Back To Basics – Vegetable Plot Sizes

Posted on 10. Apr, 2012 by Tracey.

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This post continues my Back To Basics Series, where I look at how to start growing vegetables at home in your garden, types of materials used for beds and ideas for shapes of raised beds. If you want to build your own vegetable plot in your back garden it is worth considering the size of [...]

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Swiss Chard Colour Palette

Posted on 05. Apr, 2012 by Tracey.

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Last Autumn I sowed some Swiss Chard seeds with not much hope of seeing them after the Winter. But here they are, surprisingly vibrant, if still a little small but they will now have a head start on the spring sown seeds. I wanted to share with you the striking and vibrant colour palette that [...]

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Olympic Inspired Vegetables On Your Marks, Get Set, Sow!

Posted on 31. Mar, 2012 by Tracey.

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As we all await the imminent arrival of the British Olympics 2012 with bated breath in June, unless we’ve had the foresight to book a couple of weeks away in the Algarve. I’m sprinting ahead to get in with my Olympics inspired vegetable varieties because if all else fails, there’s always the vegetable garden to [...]

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Sow Your Own Lettuce Patchwork Garden

Posted on 21. Mar, 2012 by Tracey.

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This idea may well be the downfall of me, but we all like to dream. My dream this year on my plot is a patchwork of flourishing red and green shades of lettuce with a few other baby leaf varieties thrown in for good measure (or you could say sow everything and something might resemble [...]

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