My Gardening View #7
The latest gardening view from the potting shed window. My Gardening View this month is all about starting to get . . .
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Tag: vegetables
My Gardening View #5
It’s the time of year when things are getting a little cramped in the garden. My greenhouse is overflowing and . . .
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Tomatoes – planning the 2019 season
I’ve been sorting out my tomatoes ready for sowing and looking back at the 2018 season. Tomatoes are a bit . . .
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Potatoes get season started
Nothing shouts ‘Spring’s coming!’ to me quite like buying seed potatoes. Along with sowing sweet peas, they are one of . . .
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Review: The Creative Kitchen by Stephanie Hafferty
One of the drawbacks of growing your own fruit and vegetables is the almost inevitable glut and the problem of . . .
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Vegetable trials – the results
High temperatures and little rain made it a challenging season in the veg plot. Some things seemed to ignore the . . .
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Review: Grow Your Own with Pippa Greenwood
Want to grow your own veg but don’t know where to start? I was invited to trial a scheme run . . .
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Review: Learning With Experts gardening course
I’ve spent the past few weeks back in school. Not the traditional behind the desk type and not struggling with . . .
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Putting tiger nuts to the test
As a gardening journalist, I’m used to receiving all sorts of unexpected things to trial but one that stood out . . .
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Looking back – the garden in 2017
Gardening is so much about looking forward and getting on with jobs that need doing that sometimes it’s easy to . . .
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