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Tag Archives: Seed
Let the planting commence!
I managed to get my first early potatoes planted into the ground on my half Now that the weather is warming up a little, they should be fine. I don’t plot.have the strength at the moment to dig a … Continue reading
National Garden Week
After watching an episode of gardeners world on BBC, Monty don reminded me that it was National Garden Week this week and the main focus was to encourage more people to grow wildflowers within their garden. Many wild flowers are … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Information
Tagged BBC, bees, butterflies, garden, Gardeners world, Monty Don, National Gardeners Week, National Gardening Week, Plant, pollinating, pollinating insects, Seed, sow, Wildflower
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What to do in April
Ideally, vegetable and fruit growing should be keeping us busy mostly this month but with the cold wintery conditions that we have been experiencing here in the UK, we are so far behind. I wonder whether we will really ever catch … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, What to do this month
Tagged Allotment, broccoli, Brussels sprout, cabbage, calabrese, cauliflower, Chilli, compost, fruit, garden, Garlic, Green bean, Harden, Jerusalem artichoke, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, Plant, plants, potato, potatoes, Seed, seeds, Shallot, shallots, sow, Sowing, turnips, vegetable, winter squash
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Parsnip radicle update
I just thought that I would give you a quick update on how the parsnip seeds are doing after I set them up to germinate. I have had great success with the Gladiator and Tender and True varieties but the White … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment
Tagged Allotment, Germination, gladiator, Parsnip, parsnips, Plant, radicle, root, Root vegetables, roots, Seed, seeds, tender and true, white spear
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Spot light on……Parsnips
Parsnips are a member of the cow parsley family that include carrots, dill, parsley and fennel and they are one of my favourite root vegetables of all. They come a very close second, in my opinion to carrots. Roasted parsnips with a … Continue reading
Posted in Spot light on......
Tagged allotment-diary, canker, carrot root fly, carrots, cow parsley family, exhibition parsnips, febbel, Germination, growing season, parsley, Parsnip, parsnips, peter glazebrook, plastic pipe, prechitting, prize winning vegetable, radicle, Seed, sow, tap root, winter vegetable
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Fighting for space!
There‘s a new seed sowing phenomenon gracing our gardening stores in the form of seed tape and seed discs or mats. Now I know that these are not completely new ideas as seedtape has been available for a while now, but … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Seeds
Tagged Allotment, container plants, garden, Germination, hanging baskets, Plant, plant spacing, plants, Seed, sow, Sowing, thinning plants, transplanting, Transplants, vegetable
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They’ve arrived!
I have been anxiously waiting for my parcel to grace my doorstep as I have been so excited to see the contents of the package. A few days ago, a fellow blogger was offering free chilli seeds to anyone who … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Seeds
Tagged Big Jim, big jim chilli, cayene, Cayenne, cayenne chilli, cayenne hot pepper, Chili pepper, Chilli, Habanero, Habanero Orange chilli pepper, Habenero hot chilli pepper, hinkle hatz chilli, hinkle hatz hot pepper, hot pepper, Hungarian Hot Wax chilli, Hungarian hot wax hot pepper, jaapeno chilli, jalapeno pepper, Jamaican hot chocolate chilli, Jamaican Hot Chocolate chilli pepper, jamaican hot chocolate pepper, Pepper, Plant, Plant propagation, scotch bonnet, Seed, thai giant chilli pepper, thai giant pepper, wenks yellow hot chilli
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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
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