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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Resisting temptation in favour of recycling!
After ordering a few plants or seeds a while ago from a few online fruit and veg merchants, I have been inundated with their glossy gardening catalogues ever since. At first I was quite excited to receive these in the post (sad heh!), … Continue reading
Posted in recycle
Tagged biodegradable, compost, container plants, garden, garden catalogues, glossy catalogues, greenhouse, Home and Garden, manure, Plastic, Recycle, Recycling, Root trainer, vegetable
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Garden centre goodies!
On Saturday I visited one of my favourite garden centres. Not for anything in particular, just to kill a bit of time as it was my hubbies birthday and I was early for his surprise family party! It also gave me … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment
Tagged allotment-diary, Allotments, electric onion, nicola, nicola potato, nicola salad potato, pink fir apple, pink fir apple potato, potato, potatoes, red duke of york, red duke of york potato, red elctric onion, red onion, Salad, stuttgart giant onion, suttgart giant
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Pre packaged fruit and veg
I recently wrote another article about how the supermarkets waste tons and tons of perfectly good fruit and veg simply because their sell by date has expired. The article can be found by clicking the link below if you would … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Press articles
Tagged Bean, Carrot, fruit, Plant, Shelf life, Supermarket, vegetable
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More space means more manure!
Sunday morning and yet again I find myself at the stables with a mission of grabbing many more bags of horse manure. The stable hands are laughing at me “saying you again”! The reason I’m back at the stables for … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment
Tagged Allotment, Horse manure, manure, poly tunnel, Pumpkin, squash, well rotted horse manure, well rotted manure
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Heat for your seeds in the midst of winter!
I am so eager and keen to get my crops off to a thriving start this month that I used some of the money I received at Christmas and treated myself to a heated propagator. I thought a lot about … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment
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Organising seeds for sowing
Before I really took an interest in growing fruit and vegetables, I didn’t really give a lot of thought to when you would sow seeds. It all seemed like such a minefield. Even the backs of the seed packets for … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment
Tagged Germination, growing season, Plant, Seed, Sowing, succesional sowing, vegetable
12 Comments
Manure mountain!
I spent most of my morning today wearing my overalls and Wellington boots, wading knee-high in what we ‘GYO’ers call Black Gold – horse manure. An old friend of mine, mentioned that there was a pile of free manure going to anyone … Continue reading
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