Now is a good time to plant ‘cut and come again’ salads.

They can be grown in:

• containers
• window boxes
• directly in the vegetable garden

salads need to be shaded from direct sunshine in midsummer.

Thomson & Morgan has a list of “cut and come again” types:

• red Bulls Blood



• variegated Land Cress which crops almost all year
• rocket
• chicory

Follow the simple sowing instructions on each salad variety.
Planting cut and come again’ salads now, will provide a constant supply of green leaves through the summer.

The First True Leaves are growing on the Asparagus Peas.

The two large cotyledon leaves are still bright green, but the first true leaves are now developing - 29 days after planting the asparagus pea seeds. Read More »

Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create a How To Grow Onions growing card. Click on the image below to enlarge the picture of the card.

The card may be downloaded, printed off and pinned to the potting shed wall as a useful reference on how to grow onions. Read More »

Attack the weeds in the vegetable garden when they are young and very small.

If small weeds are pulled up, with a hoe or by hand, the fine roots and stems, seen in the photo above,will dry up quickly and the weeds will die. Read More »

The potatoes have started to grow as the temperature rises, and it is easy to start to ridge them up as they grow. The potato seed was planted shallowly, just covered with soil, so that it would come out quickly. When the shoots are about 12 cm above the ground, the base of the stalk is covered with soil. It does not matter if one or two of the bottom leaves are covered with soil, but the main shoot must remain uncovered.

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Ground beetles are found in vegetable gardens, scampering across the ground or hiding under stones and logs.

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Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create a How To Grow Tomatoes growing card. Click on the image below to enlarge the picture of the card.

The card may be downloaded, printed off and pinned to the greenhouse wall as a useful reference on how to grow tomatoes. Read More »

Farming Friends & TopVeg have collaborated to create a How To Grow Courgettes growing card. Click on the image below to enlarge the picture of the card.

The card may be downloaded, printed off and pinned to the potting shed wall as a useful reference on how to grow courgettes. Read More »

The broccoli has been fantastic this year, and the hedge sparrow enjoys it too.

There are four eggs in the nest which has been built in the sprouting broccoli plant. Click the image to enlarge it. Bird information can be found on Bird Table News.

Vegetable Growing Cards