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My Vegetable Awards 2011

Posted on 01. Jan, 2012 by Tracey.

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My Vegetable Awards last year proved to be quite popular so this year I’ve reviewed my vegetables grown this year and added a few new categories. Wishing you all a very happy new year and all the best for growing your own veg in 2011. And without further ado I present My Vegetable Awards 2011: [...]

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Bank Holiday Broad Beans

Posted on 27. Dec, 2011 by Tracey.

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Bank holiday is a good time to get out and about and check on my back garden veggies. So far I’m sticking to my winter watering tip of “no watering in winter, let the weather do it for you” as I haven’t watered my winter seedlings since they were sowed at the end of October. [...]

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Batch Vegetable Recipe Trial from my Shallot Harvest

Posted on 25. Nov, 2011 by Tracey.

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I’ve been on a mission to grow vegetables for the past four years now however I’ve let the kitchen side down as I’ve not explored cooking with my vegetables as often as I’d liked. When I have cooked with my harvests, it hasn’t been very adventurous, usually I’ll just boil the green beans from the [...]

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The Last Veg Seed Sowings of the Year

Posted on 29. Oct, 2011 by Tracey.

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The last vegetable seeds have been sown for this year and the only bulbs left to plant are the garlic bulbs between end of October and Mid November. I’ve decided to try sowing my onions and shallots from seed in March next year so I’m not planting any sets this autumn. If you are planting [...]

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October Highlights and Veg Harvests

Posted on 26. Oct, 2011 by Tracey.

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October has been a really great month for harvests especially french beans, runner beans and more beans before the frost took them. Here’s what my vegetable plots were looking like a week ago: Unfortunately there is a slug and caterpillar problem in Plot 1 and they have teamed up together to eat the rest of [...]

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New Kale on the Block, Kale Fizz

Posted on 23. Oct, 2011 by Tracey.

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Back in June I sowed a variety of Kale called ‘Fizz’. I saw it in the MoreVeg online catalog advertised as a new british bred kale and the leaves looked quite unusual. The seed price was only 50p so I thought I can’t go wrong for this price, I’ll give it a try. Kale is [...]

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Rocket

Posted on 09. Oct, 2011 by Tracey.

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Rocket is one of my favourite songs by Def Leppard, check out the video here for some classic 80′s cheesy rock and Rocket is also one of the strongest tasting vegetables I have grown this year. Its peppery-ness is so strong from just one tiny leaf lobe, it beats the Scarlet Globe Radish hands down, [...]

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Red Pak Choi, Rocket and Carrot Harvest

Posted on 01. Oct, 2011 by Tracey.

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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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How To Cook and Eat Kohl Rabi

Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by Tracey.

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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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Vegetables To Harvest in August

Posted on 27. Aug, 2011 by Tracey.

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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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