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…
We wanted to give you an update on some of the other things we've got growing in the garden at the moment which haven't managed to feature in a post of their own. We planted out a couple of cucumber plants the other weekend, Salt n Pepper, Nimrod and Mini Munch. These have now been... Continue Reading →
One of the most exciting parts of the growing year (for me anyway!) is when the fruits of all your labours start to form. Don't get me wrong, the harvest part is even better, but I'll settle for this for now! Here, we have a selection of our tomatoes that are starting to set fruits:... Continue Reading →
As we've mentioned before, we are members of the National Vegetable Society ("NVS"). As part of our membership this year, we have volunteered to trial some seeds for one of the Society's sponsors, DT Brown. We thought we'd use our blog to keep you updated on how we're getting on with the varieties we're trying.... Continue Reading →
We have a number of varieties of courgettes that we're going to give a go this year, some regular oblong ones and some round ones. We've got quite a few new varieties to us this year, so we'll try and remember to do a review of these once they start producing fruits and then later... Continue Reading →
Last weekend it was also time to relocate our tomatoes to their final positions. The greenhouse was getting very overcrowded, so it was time for some of the tomatoes to move outside now that the chance of frost has (hopefully!) passed. We placed these up against the wall we have in our garden, which is... Continue Reading →
Although the garlic and elephant garlic have been growing away in our littel raised bed over the winter, we managed to fill it up last weekend. We sowed some pak choi, chop suey greens and fennel the other week. We sowed one seed per cell tray and within a couple of weeks this is how... Continue Reading →
We had some glorious weather last Saturday - lovely blue skies and sunshine. So we took the opportunity to move some of our vegetable plants outside, and to pot some others up. We've got the crops we're growing so far up against the wall to protect them from the elements, but we'll probably move them... Continue Reading →
As with the courgettes, we'll share progress on our early sowing of Tasty King cucumbers first. These have been growing on happily in their 3" pots with more compost gradually being added as the plant grew. However, over the bank holiday weekend, we planted these out in the greenhouse. We planted them out in bottomless... Continue Reading →
We wanted to share progress with our early sowing of container courgettes, Midnight. These were potted up into these 30 litre containers a couple of weeks ago, and are just starting to get established and really get growing. They have literally doubled in size over the past week, so it should be all go from... Continue Reading →
We took the bank holiday weekend as an opportunity to sow some more vegetables to enjoy over the summer months. First up, Chris was sowing some Rougette radishes and some mixed leaf salad in containers. These are sown in multi-purpose compost and then covered with some sieved compost to exclude the light whilst the seeds... Continue Reading →
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