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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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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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Growing Tomato, Pepper, Radish, Onion, Lettuce on a Windowsill

Posted on 18. Mar, 2012 by Tracey.

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Over the past few months I’ve been trialling out vegetable seeds in coir pots and trays which form part of my brand new Windowsill Vegetable Grow Kit. (which is now available in my UK shop www.igrowvegshop.co.uk I’ve always wanted to say that and now finally I can). Windowsill seed sowing for me is an essential [...]

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I’ve got the vegetable growing itch and I’m not afraid to scratch it

Posted on 14. Jan, 2012 by Tracey.

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If you are not growing anything at the moment, your vegetable growing itch might be stronger than those people who have grown winter vegetables. Although that’s not entirely true, as the hardcore vegetable growers amongst us (myself included) cannot simply switch off for a month or two in December and January without looking at a [...]

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Winter Vegetable Seedling Survival Tips

Posted on 10. Dec, 2011 by Tracey.

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Northern Britain has had the first taste of icy blasts and snow storms this year and the south so far has got off scott free but I’m sure we will get some snow sooner rather than later. Last nights temperatures went down to zero degrees in the south but if you think thats cold, spare [...]

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Benefits of Growing Vegetables in Winter

Posted on 22. Nov, 2011 by Tracey.

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I enjoy sowing seeds in the Autumn and Winter because I’m always amazed that a plant can grow in a season that is cold, frosty and even snowy and still come out into Spring smiling. That is some hardy plant! This is why I can’t help but sow Broad Beans and Peas every Winter to [...]

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Best Books for Cooking with Fruit and Vegetables

Posted on 06. Nov, 2011 by Tracey.

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I have been really enjoying the british food delights and creative vegetable dishes cooked up from programmes like Great British Food Revival particularly the episode about Garlic (catchup on the BBC iPlayer, its definitely worth a watch) and the new series from River Cottage – Veg Everyday (find the recipes here) and I’m loving how [...]

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Beginner Garlic Growers, Which Variety to Choose?

Posted on 13. Oct, 2011 by Tracey.

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I’m a beginner Garlic grower and I’m not afraid to admit it, sounds like I was speaking at Garlic Anonymous or something then. Its all new to me, I do like garlic but don’t cook with it, mostly because my other half doesn’t like the smell of it and I’m not really sure how to [...]

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Cauliflowers – A New Winter Growing Adventure

Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Tracey.

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I’m about to embark for the first time ever into the bumpy journey of growing cauliflowers, thanks to Urban Veg Patch who brought them to my attention in my recent competition. Why I’ve Never grown Cauliflower so far When I was studying the Certificate in Gardening by City and Guilds at evening classes a few [...]

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