Proof that vegetable growing can be done by anybody. From a couple of under 30s – one who grew up growing and one who has just got going…
The hanging basket strawberries are growing away now, I think they like their new planters! Due to the wind we've been experiencing, we haven't hung them up yet, but we will do once the weather looks like it's going to be a bit better! We're just keeping them watered as and when the compost looks... Continue Reading →
So we've done courgettes, lettuces and beetroot that are planted out into containers. However, we thought we'd do a few containers that we were going to sow the seeds straight in to. We prepare the containers in exactly the same way: Put some garden soil into the bottom of the container to provide the pot... Continue Reading →
A quick sugar snap pea update! We sowed these on 26 April, and the first signs of them germinating was on 2 May, so just under a week. We had been checking on them each day to see whether they'd germinated. When we sowed them, we covered with a couple of sheets of newspaper to... Continue Reading →
We sowed some courgettes earlier on in the year which are currently growing away in the polytunnel in the hope of getting an earlier crop. We even have our first flower! Although as predicted, the first flower to open is a female flower (the flowers that bear the courgettes), but there is no male flower... Continue Reading →
Dad had grown some Little Gem lettuces to go out in the garden. He had a handful left over, and we didn't want them to go to waste, so I've snapped them up and am going to grow them in a container. Although if you read many of our blog posts you'll be bored of... Continue Reading →
Hopefully you've been finding our "trial brassica" journey interesting and helpful so far. And this is where it really begins - the planting out! Before planting out, we gave each plant the usual treatment - a good soak in some diluted Maxicrop seaweed. We find that this gives the plants a good start when they're... Continue Reading →
We know we like to eat sugar snap peas, but we've never grown sugar snap peas before. So this is a new one for us for 2020. We're trying a variety called Cascadia, so we'll see how we get on. We first filled some cell trays with multipurpose compost. We tend to grow peas and... Continue Reading →
Although we mostly grow vegetables, we've also grown strawberries for the past couple of years. We gave you an update on our strawberry plants in the garden a couple of weeks ago, but here's an update on what we've got planned for some of the runners we took off these plants last year. Strawberries should... Continue Reading →
It's that time of year where everything is growing really fast. Despite commenting in our previous blog posts about how slowwww peppers are to grow (which I still stand by overall!), they have really got a wiggle on the past couple of weeks and were ready to pot on. Although it's often tempting, you should try... Continue Reading →
Given the current circumstances, lots of people seem to be trying their hand at "grow your own", and why not - it's great fun (in our view!) And this post is dedicated to showing that you don't have to have a big garden to be able to grow vegetables. In fact, you don't really need... Continue Reading →
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