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"September is the month of maturity"

  Maximize Your Winter Harvest with Hardy Vegetables that Mature Next Spring! Continue to sow vegetables for overwintering, to mature next spring, such as  kale, turnip, spinach, winter lettuce, Oriental vegetables (Pak Choi, Mizuna, and Mustard)....

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crimson clover in flower
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Security blankets

Climate change, bio-diversity, water management, carbon sequestration, soil fertility, weed suppression – what have all these in common?               Green Manures are like security blankets, to fill in spaces as edible crops are harvested or ground cleared....

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Cornfield Annual flower mix grown by Diane. Photo used with permission.
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Preparing for Next years Wildflowers

Inspired by television and radio gardening programs to do a little to encourage wildlife or enjoy the colours in a wildflower planting? Then you need to prepare now to sow some of our British wildflowers....

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"Now August comes with a dreamy haze of heat"

* quote by Gladys Faber  Flower colours of hot yellows, oranges and purples reflect the sultry days of summer. Water well in dry spells - especially beans, cucumbers, marrows, leeks and celery. Add mulches after...

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Holiday Watering Tips

  The year seems to have gone so fast it’s hard to believe we’re already in the holiday season. I’ve been on a practice weekend away recently, leaving on Thursday and returning home late Sunday....

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Salad Leaves
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Salad Leaves

What comes to mind? Limp lettuce? Crunchy leaves? Tangy spicy flavours? Salad leaves are available in a standard range as prepacked in the supermarket but can be quite expensive. Seed is cheap so sowing a...

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Friend or Foe -Wasps (15th)

Us gardeners should love our wasps as much as our bees. Often given a poor press, wasps both social and solitary act to our benefit. Wasp larvae are carnivorous. The adults hunt insects, caterpillars, weevils to...

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"Knee-deep in June"

Everything is flourishing but it important to keep sowing too for new vegetables and salads to crop later on (succession panting). Keep sowing your salads - mixed leaves, radishes, spring onions, lettuce. Tip: water the...

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Spring planter with orange wallflowers and deep blue hyacinths and pansies
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Starting with Containers and Pots

Picture a cobbled mediterranean street with pots of bright red geraniums up the narrow steps of a white painted house, melons cradled in there supports on a city balcony or the grandeur of stone pots...

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Spotlight on Sweetcorn

A much loved vegetable providing both colour and fibre to a meal. Available as tinned, frozen and fresh or ultra fresh and sweet if you grow your own and can harvest to the plate. Recipes...

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