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Vegetable Seeds to Sow Indoors in February & March

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Tracey.

If its too cold and wet for sowing your vegetable seeds outdoors, then why not start some vegetable seeds off on the windowsill in the comfort of your own home?
What do you need to Start Seeds off Indoors?

A Propagator with lid that fits on your windowsill,
A small bag of compost or seed compost,
One or [...]

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Vegetable Seeds to Sow Outdoors in February & March

Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by Tracey.

Spring will be arriving soon (hopefully) but until then if your itching to get seed sowing there are plenty of vegetables that can be started off outdoors in the ground under cloches. If your location is experiencing periods of prolonged rain or snow it maybe worth holding off until March.
The last frost date in the [...]

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Growing Heritage Seed Potatoes

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Tracey.

My project this year in my vegetable garden is to grow heritage seed varieties. Why? well something draws me to old and unusual seeds, I think its the adventurer inside me trying to go on a quest once more to find out the stories behind the vegetable varieties. After growing vegetables for 3 years [...]

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How to Use Organic Fertiliser in Your Vegetable Garden

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

There are three types of application of organic fertilizer to your vegetable garden, they are:
1. Dig-In or Rake-In Fertilizer
Apply a quantity per square meter (see pack instructions) and rake or dig into the soil. Check the period of time (below) it takes the nutrients to release into the soil as no seeds can be sown [...]

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Types of Organic Fertilizers for your Vegetable Garden

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

There are two types of organic fertilizer for your garden:

Natural which includes anything that occurs naturally like seaweed, manure, peat, worm compost.
Processed which includes man-made fertilizers like chicken pellets, bone-meal, blood and fish meal and compost.

What does fertilizer do in your vegetable garden?

Fix certain minerals that already exist in the soil and improve the soil [...]

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10 Vegetables That Can Survive the Snow

Posted on 16. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

This weekend I took the opportunity to wrap up warm and brush the snow off my cloches on my vegetable plot and check on my poor little vegetables. The broad beans and peas had been flattened and looked similar to this picture by Paul Kettell on the RHS online community and I’m hoping they may [...]

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10 Vegetable Growing Highlights of 2009

Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

Whilst I was reading ‘A Year of Harvests – 2009‘ over at Skippy’s Vegetable Garden blog, it inspired me to express my own vegetable highlights of 2009. As you can see below I’ve got through quite a bit in a year and there’s more to come in 2010.
1. Growing Mange Tout with the most gorgeous [...]

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The 12 Vegetables of Christmas – Part 3 of 3

Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by Tracey.

Here are the last 4 vegetables which can be harvested during the festive season. Why not try growing your own veg next year? Please view my other posts in this series: Part 1 and Part 2 of The 12 Vegetables of Christmas.
9. Turnip
Turnips are a typical winter vegetable that goes hand in hand with swede [...]

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The 12 Vegetables of Christmas – Part 2 of 3

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Tracey.

Following on from Part 1 of my 12 Vegetables that can be harvested at Christmas time, here’s another four Christmas vegetables to wet your appetite.
5. Winter Cabbage
If you’ve managed to dodge all the cabbage white caterpillars this year, you’ll be harvesting good quality hardy winter cabbages this Christmas. There’s plenty of recipes for using cabbage [...]

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The 12 Vegetables of Christmas – Part 1 of 3

Posted on 12. Dec, 2009 by Tracey.

Last year my dad handed me a giant leek that one of his friends had given him off his allotment, this year I decided to grow my own leeks for the first time to be able to hand my dad one back for Christmas from my vegetable garden. So far so good, the leeks are [...]

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