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Planning your Vegetable Garden Part 1 – Grouping Vegetable Types

Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by Tracey.

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Planning your vegetable plot for the next growing season may seem a bit boring to some but it is an important part of your vegetable garden. Once you have a good plan to refer to throughout the year with sowing and harvesting dates, you can sit back and watch your plants grow. There’s a few [...]

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Tomatoes – Are Yours Red Yet?

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Tracey.

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So you’ve sown the tomato seeds back in February, March or April, nurtured your little seedlings through the potting on process, rescued them from black/green/white fly and killed slugs from miles around, remembered to water the pots (most of the time), rejoiced once the flowers had arrived, not long now you say! The fruit takes [...]

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Mini Greenhouse Photo Update 25 May 09

Posted on 29. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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My Mini Greenhouse is quite full at the moment with two shelves packed with salad vegetables. I have: 3 and a half trays of Lettuce (Belize, Oakleaf and Salad Bowl), Half a tray of Radish (Scarlet Globe), 3 strong Cucumber (Crystal Lemon) seedlings 9 Tomato (Totem F1) Plants.

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Growing Slug Free Lettuce

Posted on 18. Apr, 2009 by Tracey.

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One of my new year resolutions was to have Slug-Free Lettuce. For the past two years every time I try to grow lettuce in my plots, slugs from miles around arrive to munch on it. So I have given up with trying to grow it on my plots but definitely not given up on growing [...]

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Tomato’s, Cucumbers, Peppers and Sunflowers on the Deck

Posted on 21. Jun, 2008 by Tracey.

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I potted on my Tomato’s (golden sunrise or green zebra) and Cucumbers (marketmore) last week and wanted to place them on the decking to get the most amount of sun possible. However under the decking in the dark only coming out at night or in heavy rainfall lurk the slimy ones. Those creatures who shall [...]

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Mini Greenhouse – Update on Seedling Progress

Posted on 05. May, 2008 by Tracey.

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I’m still having some organisation issues with the lack of space in my mini greenhouse. I know its my own fault I have 13 cucumber seedlings potted on and I’m the only one who eats cucumber in my household however I can’t bear to give up any seedlings. Also I have let a few flower [...]

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Mini Greenhouse Stock-take

Posted on 20. Apr, 2008 by Tracey.

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Yesterday I made sowings of Calabrese, broccoli tenderstem, runner and french beans and summer cabbages in pots and root-trainers for the mini greenhouse. As per my other post I already potted on my cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes and now my mini greenhouse is very full with not much space to spare. I had a bit [...]

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Potted on Cucumbers, Peppers and Tomatoes

Posted on 19. Apr, 2008 by Tracey.

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Today I was mostly potting on Cucumbers (marketmore), Sweet Peppers (romano mixed) and Tomato (unknown) – could either be Golden Sunrise or Green Zebra but I forgot to label it so its pot luck what I have! How to Pot on Seedlings Tools Required: Shuttle Trays with 9cm pots, (I bought mine from Poundstretcher/Instore for [...]

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Week 8 – 5th April 2008 – Veggy Plot Progress Report

Posted on 06. Apr, 2008 by Tracey.

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The weather was lovely and warm last week with temperatures higher than normal with the thermometers hitting 17 degrees on Friday 4th April 2008, I was happy thinking my seeds will finally get underway with their growing, until today Sunday 6th April where the temperatures dropped off the scale at a frustrating minus 2 degrees [...]

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Week 6 – 22.03.08 The Wind, Rain and Snow of Spring

Posted on 23. Mar, 2008 by Tracey.

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Last week we endured the gale force winds and heavy rains, of which my mini greenhouse door snapped under the force of the wind and is currently being propped up. The heavy rain however did seem to help my peas, broad beans and cabbages put on a spurt of growth. I did manage to transplant [...]

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