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Sainsbury’s Passion for Purple Potatoes

Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by Tracey.

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Sainsbury’s have turned on the purple passion this month by introducing a potato which has purple flesh called purple majesty. This will join their other range of purple vegetables which over the years include carrots, tomatoes and cauliflower. These potatoes will keep their colour when cooked providing a vivid blue violet mash, boiled or roast [...]

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Winter Vegetable Seeds Giveaway – Winners

Posted on 26. Sep, 2010 by Tracey.

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Thanks for your response to the free seed giveaway. If you were unlucky enough to miss this one, there will be more free seeds giveaways just in time for Christmas. If you are a winner, you would have received a message through Lourish.com asking you to send me your address, so I can post out [...]

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Growing Vegetables in Weird Places

Posted on 14. Aug, 2010 by Tracey.

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This post was inspired by an article I saw on the web a few months ago about growing vegetables in space. There must be plenty of wacky and unusual places that people grow vegetables so heres a few to get you started. If you know of any weird places to grow veg that I’ve missed, [...]

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Share Your Own Veg with the Lourish.com Community

Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Tracey.

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Are you harvesting more runner beans that is humanly possible to eat and freeze? Are you over-run with tomatoes? Have you made enough tomato sauce to feed a small army and run out of ideas to use your excess? Then this fab new website, launched today called Lourish is for you! Lourish.com aims to help [...]

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Earthworms: Now eating live plants and seeds near you!

Posted on 22. May, 2010 by Tracey.

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Look at this earthworm, it may be slimy, long and good for the soil however it has revealed one of its hidden secrets to scientists this week. Scientists from Georg-August-University Göttingen in Germany have discovered that earthworms are in fact predators of living as well as dead plants. Their particular favourites are legume seeds and [...]

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Vegetable Mad Science Experiments – We Love Em! Part 1 Beans

Posted on 12. May, 2010 by Tracey.

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Do you remember doing science experiments at school like the coin being cleaned when dropped in a beaker of coke or making a balloon rocket and firing it over the sports field? Even as adults we still have an inquisitive nature to discover the unknown. We all like trying to conquer new things in our [...]

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BBC’s Dig In – Grow Your Own Vegetables in Containers

Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by Tracey.

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This year in my garden I’m trying to squeeze in vegetables where-ever I can and as we are concentrating on painting and cleaning up our decking area, this is a ripe sunny area which is going to be great for large pots and planters. As soon as the BBC’s Dig In Campaign popped up on [...]

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Introducing the Inside Out Strawberry – The Pineberry

Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by Tracey.

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Introducing the Pineberry which looks like an albino version of a strawberry but with red seeds. If that isn’t confusing enough it actually tastes of pineapple! Pineberries are on sale in 45 Waitrose stores around the country for the next five weeks whilst they are in season. They originate from South America although now are [...]

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I’ve Guest Posted on Garden Trading.co.uk – Jobs To Do in the Garden in Spring

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Tracey.

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Just a quick post to let you know I was invited to write a guest post over at Garden Trading’s blog and I accepted because I love their website and their products particularly the Wooden 3 Tier Herb Pot Stand which I’ve had my eye on for a while now! Garden Trading are a high [...]

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Valentines Day Vegetables that put the Passion into Gardening

Posted on 14. Feb, 2010 by Tracey.

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Here’s a bit of fun to celebrate valentines day, vegetable gardener style. Below is my cupid list to ignite your passion of growing, see if any of the following vegetable contenders make it onto your short list for the new season! 1. Scarlet Horn – Carrot If you like small packages, this is the one [...]

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