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My First Vegetable Seed Save with Mange Tout

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Tracey.

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I’ve only ever tried seed saving once before with my runner bean seeds and to my horror they became a mouldy mess in the bottom of a brown paper bag. Urgh! This time I thought I’d try again with the Mange Tout ‘Golden Sweet’ plants which have now dried out in the sun and some [...]

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Summer Harvest of Mange Tout, Beans, Carrots and Potatoes

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Tracey.

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Finally I managed to get out in the vegetable garden after dodging the heavy rain and thunderstorms to do some much needed harvesting. My Mange tout are literally bursting off the bush and some have turned into pea pods as its taken me so long to harvest them! Whether they are mange tout or mange [...]

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Beans Glorious Beans

Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Tracey.

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My bean and pea vegetable raised bed plot is looking packed and fabulous with mange tout and two types of dwarf french beans ready for harvest. Last week I planted out my two types of runner beans in the centre of my plot, they took over the space from the overwintered broad beans. Note for [...]

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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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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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Vegetable Seeds to Sow in May

Posted on 17. May, 2009 by Tracey.

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There’s still time before the end of May to start sowing the following seeds in cells and pots in the mini greenhouse or straight into your raised beds. Seedlings in cells or pots can be planted out after the end of May when frost has passed. 1. Dwarf French and Climbing Beans, Dwarf French Beans [...]

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