Saving seed from hybrid vegetables in the garden, will produce seeds which will grow into plants which may be quite different from their parents. It is a lottery, and always surprising to see what the combination turns out to be. They may have great hybrid vigour, growing strongly and healthily. Read More »
Grady Thrasher has written his first children’s book, “Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden,” which introduces children into the world of gardening. The author was inspired by memories of gardening with his grandmother as a child. Read More »
Saving seed from open pollinated varieties of vegetables in the garden, will produce seeds which will grow into plants like their parents.
Open pollinated (OP) plants are varieties that grow true from seed.
Vegetable seeds can be saved from the vegetable garden for growing next year.
There are three important steps when saving home-grown seed from the vegetable garden:
A useful site, called seedypeople, has developed for swapping vegetable seeds within the UK.
Saving vegetable seeds from the garden is quite easy, as long as the correct procedures are followed. Surplus runner beans are going to seed on the vine, now. Click for further information on the correct procedures for collecting seeds. Read More »
Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, produce shelf- or bracket-shaped conks with characteristic brackets or semicircular, flattened fungi, that appear on the trunk of trees. These fruiting bodies have pores or gills underneath.
The photo is of a bracket fungus 8m up an old Ash tree (just above the woodpecker’s hole!) Read More »
A herb character, entered by Mel of BeanSprouts, comprising a picture of Einstein crowned with sprigs of Sage hair, has won the TopVeg Herb Character competition.
Judge & TopVeg Art Consultant, Will, said “To match Sage with Einstein demonstrates a stroke of genius! ” Read More »
TopVeg started the Favourite Herb Poll on September 18th, and in the last four weeks 57 people voted. Read More »
Nasturtiums are used by vegetable gardeners as companion plants. The Nasturtiums attract aphids keeping the pests away from valuable vegetables growing in the garden. Read More »
Sara, from Farming Friends, contacted TopVeg for an on-line consultation about her sick Bay Tree. The leaves were developing black spots before turning brown and dropping off. Click the audio button to hear a podcast of the online clinic: Sara’s Bay
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