Vegetable Seed Waste – Seeds I’ve Bought and Never Grown
Posted on 26. Feb, 2011 by Tracey.
We’ve all done it, buying seeds on impulse or because we thought it was a good idea at the time or being lured into buying a ‘bargain’ or the ‘I’m sure I could squeeze this in somewhere’ scenario, well I’ve been thinking how much of those seeds are really going to waste. Some of these [...]
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Plot Problems No 1 – Plant Spacing in Raised Beds
Posted on 23. Feb, 2011 by Tracey.
One of the problems I have when growing vegetables in my raised beds is Spacing. I have kind of self taught myself and use the not so scientific way of ‘guessing’ how close I can sow or let vegetables grow together. Of course this method lends itself to the phrase ‘learning the hard way’ with [...]
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Ready, Steady, Chit – Jacket Potato Tubers in Egg Boxes
Posted on 19. Feb, 2011 by Tracey.
In a week where the Olympic London 2012 tickets were announced, there’s another event I’m celebrating the start of, the chitting of my jacket seed potatoes. They have arrived in very quick time from a company called Simply Seeds.co.uk, I have never used them before but as the potatoes were out of stock on another [...]
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Grow Your Own Jacket Potatoes
Posted on 14. Feb, 2011 by Tracey.
We eat a lot of crispy salt and olive oil encrusted Jacket potatoes in our house so I thought I’d try growing my own jacket potatoes this year in the vegetable garden. I’m building a new raised bed to put them in which is going to be deeper than 12 inches to accomodate the larger [...]
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Full Time Worker? How to Grow Veg at the Weekends
Posted on 05. Feb, 2011 by Tracey.
I’m a firm believer that whatever your lifestyle and working times, anyone can find time to grow vegetables. The main excuse I hear is ‘I haven’t got enough time’. So how much time does it really take to grow your own vegetables? Personally I would say as much as you want it to take up. [...]
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January Vegetable Plot Update – Brassicas Rule!
Posted on 29. Jan, 2011 by Tracey.
My raised beds are looking very empty as the snow wiped out all my peas, I had high hopes for them as I sowed them in every bed. I’ll just have to repeat the sowings next month and have my fingers crossed for peas in the summer, thats if there’s enough room as I’m definitely [...]
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New and Noteworthy Vegetables to Grow in 2011
Posted on 27. Jan, 2011 by Tracey.
Throughout the winter months, we all spend most of our time (well I know I do!) sifting through the seed catalogues or browsing the online vegetable seed stores, trying to finalise our vegetable growing lists for this year. I have a self confessed addiction for meticulously looking through every vegetable category on the veg seed [...]
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Cabin Fever and Composting
Posted on 23. Jan, 2011 by Tracey.
Over the past few weeks I have been suffering with Cabin Fever but yesterday I wimped out of the most hated job in the garden – tidying up the compost bin, actually its a job I’ve been putting off for ages and I’ve been quite good at putting it off, for almost a year now. [...]
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Grow Your Own Potatoes – First Earlies or Salad Potatoes
Posted on 16. Jan, 2011 by Tracey.
January is the month to choose your varieties of potatoes and then order them by Mid February to ensure that you have enough time to place them into chitting for 4 to 6 weeks before planting out in Mid March onwards. Its also the time to start saving those egg boxes for chitting your potatoes [...]
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Vegetable Seeds to Sow in January
Posted on 08. Jan, 2011 by Tracey.
January is the month where we are itching to start the new year off with some new seed sowings. However it is usually very cold and wet outdoors and not the type of conditions for seed sowing or germinating. Therefore all sowings need to be protected under cover in a mini or standard sized greenhouse [...]
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I'm Tracey Bacon from Essex, UK, author of iGrowVeg.com
I'm an avid vegetable grower, writer and tweeter. I aim to show that anyone can grow their own vegetables at home on a windowsill, in pots or raised beds.
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