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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Tag: vegetables
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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Hits and misses of the 2017 garden trials
One of the delights of gardening is trying something new and I’ve been given a whole range of things for . . .
Read moreReview: Tiny Garden, Huge Harvest by Caleb Warnock
There’s a commonly held view that growing veg is possible only if you have a large garden or access to . . .
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Review: Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables
It’s so disappointing to spend weeks carefully nurturing fruit and veg only to miss picking them at the right time. . . .
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Review: The Salad Garden by Joy Larkcom
I first encountered French dressing on a school trip to Paris. We were all puzzled by the idea of putting . . .
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How to grow vegetables in containers
Grow your own is a big theme of BBC Gardeners’ World Live and ahead of the show I talked to . . .
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