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Apr, 2020 By Sally Osgerby

Earth Day in the Vegetable Garden

Vegetable gardeners cherish the soil as an essential part of growing veg, so we celebrate Earth Day. A healthy soil is full of organic matter: plants and animals which have decomposed and provide nutrients for future growing plants. A healthy
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Apr, 2020 By Sally Osgerby

Dig up the lawn & grow Veg!(

If you want to grow veg but have no space, dig up the lawn! There is still time to convert a patch of grass into a vegetable garden. We have evidence! In March a few years ago our friend, the
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Dec, 2019 By Sally Osgerby

World Soil Day

Today is World Soil Day. The Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (UN) are appealing for everyone to “Stop Soil Erosion and Save our Future.” The UN says: “World Soil Day 2019 (#WorldSoilDay) and its campaign “Stop soil erosion,
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Nov, 2019 By Sally Osgerby

World Vegan Month

November is World Vegan Month. The vegetable garden supports vegans by producing fresh produce all the year round, and you can start growing now! There are plenty of jobs to do in the garden in November. it is a good
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Oct, 2019 By Sally Osgerby

Pumpkin Day 2019

Its Pumpkin Day today! A good time to collect pumpkins in readiness for Halloween. Last year when we went out to find pumpkins, all the major stores had sold out. So this year we decided to grow our own pumpkins.
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Oct, 2019 By Sally Osgerby

Grow Herbs on World Food Day

Today, 16 October, is World Food Day, which highlights the importance of food production and food security. World Food Day was launched by the United Nations in 1945 to celebrate the formation of the Food and Agriculture Organisation. (FAO)  This
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May, 2019 By Sally Osgerby

How Brits used ‘grow your own’ to survive the World Wars

This is a sponsored post: How Brits used ‘grow your own’ to survive the World Wars Although, the First World War was deemed to be the ‘war to end all wars’, we now know that, just two short decades later,
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Feb, 2019 By Sally Osgerby

How to Grow Chilli Peppers

Chilli Peppers are fun to grow.  They like to be kept warm and are very happy on a warm window sill if you haven’t got a greenhouse. If you are growing them from seed sow them early in the year.
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Jan, 2019 By Sally Osgerby

THE ART OF THE ALLOTMENT

An art exhibition including  ‘Art on the Allotment’ opens at the Dean Clough Art Gallery in Halifax this weekend. Carole Thornton pictured above with her portrait of an old man, one of a series of three pictures, for the exhibition at
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Feb, 2018 By Sally Osgerby

Seed Potatoes Mixed!

We have opened the packet of seed potatoes we bought from the garden centre on 4 February and found a mixed bunch! There are 4 large potatoes, 4 medium sized and 2 tiny ones.  We prefer large seed potatoes as
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