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Vegetable Garden Maintenance Jobs To Do before Spring

Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

I look outside my back garden window and think to myself that my garden looks a big mess, grass and weeds sprawled over my shrub borders, overgrown lawn, mini greenhouse needs a clean down and clear out, pots and seed trays need to be cleaned. I’m hoping the spring bulbs appear soon to cheer me [...]

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10 Vegetables That Can Survive the Snow

Posted on 16. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

This weekend I took the opportunity to wrap up warm and brush the snow off my cloches on my vegetable plot and check on my poor little vegetables. The broad beans and peas had been flattened and looked similar to this picture by Paul Kettell on the RHS online community and I’m hoping they may [...]

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The affects of Snow, Ice and the Cold on your Vegetable Garden

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

With the cold snap of snow lasting for a little while longer, I have enjoyed seeing snowy vegetables on other peoples blogs like Kale and Brussels Sprouts on Nip It In The Bud’s Winter Wonderland Post and Leeks on Eight by Six’s blog and I was interested to find out how the snow is affecting [...]

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iGrowVeg has been Nominated at the Dorset Cereals Little Blog Awards

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

Just a quick message, I’m smiling from ear to ear knowing I’ve made the cut for the Dorset Cereals Little Blog Awards!
Every person who votes will be entered into Dorset Cereals free prize draw to win a case of Dorset Cereals, yum!
iGrowVeg has been Nominated – Vote for Me Here!

Also whilst your on the [...]

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Planning your Vegetable Garden Part 2 – What Can I Grow?

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

If you missed the first Part of my Planning Your Vegetable Garden Series, please read it here: Grouping Vegetable Types and Crop Rotation or download a free PDF version with extra pages on my new Free Resources Page.
What can you grow? well any vegetable that you want to really. However as always there are [...]

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Its time to make your Veg Pledges for 2010

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

What is a Veg Pledge you may ask, well its like a new years resolution for vegetable growers, its something that you are pledging to all that your are going to complete or achieve (hopefully) in the year 2010.
What will your Veg Pledges be for 2010?
Go on leave a comment at the bottom of this [...]

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10 Vegetable Growing Highlights of 2009

Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

Whilst I was reading ‘A Year of Harvests – 2009‘ over at Skippy’s Vegetable Garden blog, it inspired me to express my own vegetable highlights of 2009. As you can see below I’ve got through quite a bit in a year and there’s more to come in 2010.
1. Growing Mange Tout with the most gorgeous [...]

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December Veg Plot & Winter Seedlings Update

Posted on 01. Jan, 2010 by Tracey.

December is a time where I tend to hibernate and leave the vegetable plot to fend mostly for itself apart from harvesting the odd bit of pak choi. So it was nice to have a look at the plots today (the first day of the new year) in the beautiful winter sunshine to see how [...]

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The 12 Vegetables of Christmas – Part 3 of 3

Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by Tracey.

Here are the last 4 vegetables which can be harvested during the festive season. Why not try growing your own veg next year? Please view my other posts in this series: Part 1 and Part 2 of The 12 Vegetables of Christmas.
9. Turnip
Turnips are a typical winter vegetable that goes hand in hand with swede [...]

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The 12 Vegetables of Christmas – Part 2 of 3

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Tracey.

Following on from Part 1 of my 12 Vegetables that can be harvested at Christmas time, here’s another four Christmas vegetables to wet your appetite.
5. Winter Cabbage
If you’ve managed to dodge all the cabbage white caterpillars this year, you’ll be harvesting good quality hardy winter cabbages this Christmas. There’s plenty of recipes for using cabbage [...]

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