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2011 A Bean Odyssey
Posted on 13. Aug, 2011 by Tracey.
The definition of the word Odyssey is a long and eventful journey. My bean growing experience certainly has been that. Beans are our favourite vegetable and are eaten every week. In the past, we would buy a pack of fine cut green beans from the supermarket but this year I hoped I would be able [...]
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Stuck on what to Grow for Winter? Try a Vegetable Seed Collection
Posted on 07. Aug, 2011 by Tracey.
If it’s your first year thinking about whether or not to sow any seeds for the autumn/winter, you’ll probably be stuck for where to start and if it’s your second or more years growing winter veg, you may have run out of ideas for what to sow. So why not make it easy on yourself [...]
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Sneaky Peak at My Potatoes
Posted on 29. Jul, 2011 by Tracey.
Any vegetables that grow underground haven’t got a chance of staying covered when I’m around. I can’t help myself, I just have to take a sneaky peak to see how they are doing. I think this stems from my childhood, as we (me and my sister) were always told not to touch the christmas presents [...]
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Mind the Gap – Keep Your Sowings Going
Posted on 25. Jul, 2011 by Tracey.
At anytime of the year, but especially late summer, a few gaps start to appear in your vegetable plot. These gaps could appear for a number of reasons like: Vegetables have been havested, Sowings haven’t all germinated properly, Seedlings haven’t survived, Lost plants due to pests and diseases, Thinned spaces not grown into. These gaps [...]
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Back To Basics – Vegetable Raised Bed Shapes
Posted on 21. Jul, 2011 by Tracey.
The most common shape of a raised bed is a square or a rectangle and this is because it offers the maximum square footage or meter-age of area to grow vegetables in. This is useful if a particular vegetable requires a large area i.e. squash or if you wish to grow many of one type [...]
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Top Tips on How To Grow Better French Beans
Posted on 20. Jul, 2011 by Tracey.
Here are my lovely French Beans breaking the surface of the soil back in April, in my post Sowing Multi-Coloured Beans in Containers and by jove look at them now, a right royal purple and tiny yellow rabble of french beans and very curly at that. This has been my first container growing project since [...]
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How to Deal with Extreme Weather on your Vegetable Plot
Posted on 18. Jul, 2011 by Tracey.
This year has been unprecedented for weather extremes around the world. According to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and Scientific American Magazine, 2011 is officially among the most extreme weather years in history with 8 extreme weather related events in the first half of this year. In the UK, we have had the [...]
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July Vegetable Plot Update with Peas and Giant Cabbages
Posted on 10. Jul, 2011 by Tracey.
Over the past month my vegetable plot has produced quite a lot of vegetables including a glut of mange tout which I have already had to freeze for eating later. My cabbages have succeeded my expectations this year by becoming giant spring cabbages. I’ve had to blanche and freeze the leaves for later in the [...]
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Growing KohlRabi – Monster of all Vegetables
Posted on 03. Jul, 2011 by Tracey.
When I first saw Kohlrabi, I thought it looked like an alien vegetable that had invaded my vegetable plot. I found it hard to like its spiky sprouting leaves which stood sharply upright out of the spaceship bulb and it reminded me of an upside down tripod from War of the Worlds. So to me [...]
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Vegetable Seeds to Sow Now for Autumn Harvests
Posted on 23. Jun, 2011 by Tracey.
Time goes by so fast in the height of the vegetable growing season and I always get caught up in summer BBQ’s, festivals, relaxing in the sunshine and usually I completely forget about what to sow for an autumn harvest until its too late. By too late I mean I miss Autumn completely and sow [...]
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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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