Archive for 'How To Grow Veg'
Vegetable Seeds to Sow and Sets to Buy in September
Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Tracey.
September is the month for looking forward to the autumn and winter months and planning overwintering vegetables for your plots. 1. Order Now – Garlic. Delivery: Mid September to October, Plant: October to November. Harvest: July next year. Garlic Varieties: Popular – Solent White – good for the British climate. Giant – Elephant Garlic – [...]
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iGrowVeg How to Grow Vegetables Summary
Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Tracey.
I’m off my my hols this week so I’m doing summaries of all my posts so they are easy to find or bookmark for future reference. These are the highlights of How To Grow Vegetables. How to Start Growing Vegetables How To Build your own Raised Vegetable Bed How to Build a Geoff Hamilton Giant [...]
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Its never too late in the year to start growing your own vegetables
Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by Tracey.
Dear Tracey, I have only just built some raised beds to grow some vegetables in, am I too late in the year to start growing now? The answer is no, its never too late to start growing your own vegetables. Each month there is always something new to sow or plant. Here’s some tips if [...]
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Vegetable Seeds have arrived from The Real Seed Catalogue
Posted on 08. Aug, 2009 by Tracey.
Whenever I receive vegetable seeds through the post I’m like a kid in a sweet shop. I’m not sure which one to look at first! Even though I know what I ordered I still have to look at all the seed packets and read the information. For about five minutes I’m hypnotized by the delights [...]
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4 Alternative Vegetables to Grow in August
Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by Tracey.
Why not try sowing a vegetable you have never heard of before? Some of the following crop in as little as six weeks! Go on try sowing something a bit different. 1. Rapini (Broccoli Raab) Rapini is easy to grow and is similar to broccoli but crops in only 6 weeks. Broccoli Raab is from [...]
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Vegetable Seeds to Sow in August
Posted on 02. Aug, 2009 by Tracey.
August is nearly the end of the summer (where did the time go?) and is the month to start sowing vegetables for autumn and spring next year. There is still plenty to sow from Chinese to baby vegetables and winter versions of the summer classic vegetables. Take your pick from the contenders below. 1. Winter [...]
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6 Reasons why you should Maintain your Vegetable Garden
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Tracey.
The mange tout is going yellow and looking straggly and the runner bean plants need space to breath so I thought it was about time to tidy up the vegetable plot. There are a few good reasons why you should maintain your vegetable garden. 1. Slugs and snails lurk where there is dead and decaying [...]
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Vegetable Seeds to Sow in July
Posted on 06. Jul, 2009 by Tracey.
July is the middle of the vegetable growing year and the month for harvesting lettuce, radish, early carrots, new potatoes, mange tout, peas, dwarf french, climbing and runner beans and more. Remember to keep watering your vegetables as July is one of the hottest months. There’s still lots of vegetable seeds to sow in the [...]
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Growing Vegetables in the Office
Posted on 04. Jul, 2009 by Tracey.
A month ago I decided to grow my own vegetables on a windowsill to show people how easy it was to start growing your own vegetables on a small scale. I took up the windowsill challenge at my place of work in a finance department as I wanted to show my work colleagues that it [...]
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How to Plant Out Leeks into a Raised Vegetable Bed
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Tracey.
June and July are the months to plant out or transplant your leeks into raised beds. Leeks will need to be planted out when they are about a pencil’s thickness. Do not worry if they are not that thick, they will fatten up in the raised beds. Top Tips Leeks will have to have some [...]
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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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