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Mange Tout Rodney Mange Tout!

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Tracey.

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‘Mange Tout Rodney’ was one of the many phrases that peckham wheeler dealer Delboy Trotter used in the UK’s best sitcom Only Fools and Horses. From the list of definitions on the BBC’s Delboy Foreign Lingo page, it actually meant ‘my pleasure’. So for your pleasure please see the photos below showing my mange tout [...]

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Radish Harvest and my first Onion!

Posted on 14. Jun, 2009 by Tracey.

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My Radishes are coming thick and fast now for harvesting, its been a good year for them. I chose a different variety this time – Scarlet Globe. The taste is nice and then the strong hot after-taste kicks you in the back of the throat. If you are not expecting this (as I wasn’t, I [...]

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Vegetable Harvest – Discover Broad Beans

Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by Tracey.

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32 Weeks its taken to grow my Broad Beans, they were sown straight into my raised bed in October 2008 to be overwintered until Spring. They have survived the cold, wet and windy winter, a few blackfly clusters on their tips and me forgetting to stake them again but it was all worth while to [...]

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Growing Vegetables reaches new height

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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Vertical Vegetable Growing is not a new idea but growing vegetables inside a giant dragonfly wing shaped skyscraper is a whole new concept. Vincent Callebaut, a Belgian architect has designed a futuristic view of how human living, working and farming could be amalgamated into a 600m tall greenhouse style building called the Dragonfly. The elaborate [...]

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Raised Vegetable Garden – Photo Update 23.05.09

Posted on 25. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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This is my Photo Update for May for my 3 back garden raised vegetable beds. (If you wish to view the pictures below by photo slide-show, please click on the first photo and move your mouse arrow to the top right of the photo for the next button.) If you are reading this post via [...]

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How To Build your own ‘Geoff Hamilton’ Cloche

Posted on 22. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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Its Bank Holiday weekend, tipped to be the hottest one of the year, so get out into your gardens or do some DIY. Why not do a bit of both and try out the following weekend project? At the beginning of the year, I wrote how I was going to build my own Geoff Hamilton [...]

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James May puts his creativity in gear with Chelsea Plasticine Vegetable Garden

Posted on 19. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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It was bound to cause some controversy at the prestigious 87th RHS Chelsea Flower Show that of a garden entry with no ‘real’ flowers or vegetables and its designer, ‘Captain Slow’ of Top Gear fame, by his own admission has no affinity to gardening and has only ever ‘dug holes’ in his garden. The Paradise [...]

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Hot Hot Hot Cherwood Nursery has Pick Your Own Chilli’s

Posted on 15. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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Scotch Bonnets, Habaneros, Anaheim and the world’s hottest chilli’s Dorset Naga and Bhut Jolokia (which has to be eaten wearing gloves and goggles) are certainly enough to get most people hot under the collar. There are 40 different chilli plant varieties being grown under glass at a bedfordshire nursery where visitors can in a months [...]

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Carrots steer the way with Vegetable based Racing Car

Posted on 05. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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There are many uses for vegetables such as carrots and potatoes like Sunday dinner, salads, chutneys, preserves and building F3 Racing cars.

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What’s in my Compost Bin this week?

Posted on 02. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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Compost Watch is my little project for 2009. My aim is to make my own compost from my garden and kitchen waste. Every few weeks I will be adding more contents to the Compost Bin and updating the photos and content chart below. Contents as at 25th April 2009 Subtotal of Compost Contents after 14 [...]

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