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Red Pak Choi, Rocket and Carrot Harvest
Posted on 01. Oct, 2011 by Tracey.
There has been good results and bad results with my Red Rubi Pak Choi. Good results in that it is a stunning vegetable to grow, very quick grower, has a nice crunch to it in stir-fries and doesn’t loose all its colour on cooking (by cooking I mean 2-3 minutes in a frying pan). I [...]
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Growing Vegetables Undercover in Autumn and Winter
Posted on 25. Sep, 2011 by Tracey.
Don’t give up growing vegetables this autumn and winter, this is one of the best times of the year to sow vegetables to keep your supply of salads, leaves and greens going. If you are stuck on what to grow, try my selection of Autumn Veg Seed Collections for more ideas and there’s 10% off [...]
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How to Spot Potato Diseases when Harvesting and Storing
Posted on 22. Sep, 2011 by Tracey.
It’s Potato Harvesting time for Maincrop varieties and the results of my Marfona Jacket Potato harvest are good. I grew 12 seed potatoes in an open slatted old compost bin using only 4 inches of compost (which was one giant bag of compost) and I still managed to grow large jacket sized potatoes. The only [...]
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Autumn Veg Seed Competition with Seed Pantry and EarthedUp
Posted on 17. Sep, 2011 by Tracey.
The lovely people at Seed Pantry (@SeedPantry on Twitter) recently sent me one of their Mini Autumn Veg Patch boxes to try out for myself in my back garden vegetable plot and mighty pleased I am too. So impressed in fact, I have got two Autumn Mini Veg Patch boxes to giveaway in my Autumn [...]
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How To Cook and Eat Kohl Rabi
Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by Tracey.
Following on from my last post ‘Growing KohlRabi – Monster of all Vegetables‘ and the comment from Mark at The Smallholders Diary for recipe ideas for Kohl Rabi, here is my very first cooking and tasting session. I labelled Kohl Rabi as a monster vegetable in my last post and if you’ve not come across [...]
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Top 8 Vegetable Glut Recipes
Posted on 04. Sep, 2011 by Tracey.
As we are moving into the harvesting season with plenty of tomatoes turning red, courgettes appearing every time you turn your back, runner beans growing a plenty and cucumbers ready to fall off the vine any second, yes its glut time again. The question is what do we do with all that veg? it definitely [...]
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Vegetables To Harvest in August
Posted on 27. Aug, 2011 by Tracey.
Its World Kitchen Garden Day tomorrow which is celebration of the positives of organic gardening and food production all over the world. It is also an opportunity to show people about home-grown and home-cooked foods so I’d like to share with you my haul of home grown organic vegetables harvested in August and links to [...]
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Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
Posted on 21. Aug, 2011 by Tracey.
I could be talking about any aspect of vegetable growing. We all sow the seeds, water and stand back and wait for ‘something’ to happen, we hope that ‘something’ will be good and not fraught with pests, diseases or other problems. We hope that when the waiting game has paid off, that the ‘something’ has [...]
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Growing Pak Choi Red Rubi
Posted on 18. Aug, 2011 by Tracey.
I’ve been wanting to sow this Pak Choi Rubi variety since last year when I spotted it browsing through internet seed catalogues. I’m glad I’ve sowed it this year as I’m loving the deep red colour on the leaves even from seedlings. It reminds me the first time I saw the striking red leaf veins [...]
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Powdery Mildew Disease on Peas
Posted on 16. Aug, 2011 by Tracey.
Twice this year I have seen the dreaded powdery mildew disease, once on my Mange Tout right at the end of their season in June and now just as my late peas ‘Jaguar’ are into their growing period in August. What is Powdery Mildew? It is a fungal disease that spreads onto the plant leaves [...]
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About Me
I'm Tracey Bacon from Essex, UK, author of iGrowVeg.com
I'm an avid vegetable grower, writer and tweeter. I aim to show that anyone can grow their own vegetables at home on a windowsill, in pots or raised beds.
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